“…Concerning control algorithms for oscillation suppression of smart beams and structures, most of the published papers employed conventional linear control methods, e.g. negative velocity feedback control (Sun & Huang, 2001), traditional PID (Kumar et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015), fractional-order PID (Xu et al, 2018), LQR and LQG optimal control (Bruant et al, 2001;Zhang et al, 2010), H ∞ robust control (Sahin & Aridogan, 2011), or nonlinear control methods such as sliding mode control (Itik et al, 2005) and fuzzy controller (Moradi et al, 2014), or MIMO algorithm (Zhu et al, 2012). Most of these papers merely contemplated the free vibration case which has no steady-state error.…”