Independent modal space phase‐lead velocity feedback control of floor vibration

Xue, Kaiping; Igarashi, Akira; Kachi, Takahiro

doi:10.1002/stc.2954

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“…Nonetheless, when the dynamics of the system are considered, the unconditional stability assumption no longer holds and a limit to the control gain exists. Several techniques have been proposed to increase the stability margin of VF including: the Acceleration Feedback Control (Diaz and Reynolds, 2010), the Inner Control Loop Approach (Díaz et al, 2012a), the Integral Resonant Control (Díaz et al, 2012b), the Virtual Mass Technique (Mao et al, 2020), the adaptive reduction of VF gain (Ahmadi, 2020), or the Independent Modal Space Phase-Lead VF Control (Xue et al, 2022). The SISO VF schemes may perform poorly when the target structure exhibits closely-spaced modes.…”

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Active control of human-induced vibrations on lightweight structures via electrodynamic actuator dynamics inversion

Ramírez-Senent

Gallegos-Calderón

García‐Palacios

et al. 2022

Journal of Vibration and Control

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The active vibration absorber represents an effective means to mitigate excessive vibrations in low-damping structures. Nevertheless, the dynamics of the actuators employed in such systems may negatively affect their performance and stability restricting their operational frequency range. This article presents an application of dynamics inversion techniques to the force control of electrodynamic proof-mass actuators employed as active vibration absorbers in lightweight pedestrian structures. The dynamics inversion approach is applied to enhance the classical direct velocity feedback scheme. Additionally, a novel method relying on dynamics inversion is presented: the Broadband Force Cancellation Algorithm. This procedure consists in estimating, in real-time, the equivalent force acting on the system to later apply it back to the structure with the opposed sign. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is assessed via numerical simulations carried over a realistic model of an existing lightweight footbridge and an electrodynamic proof-mass actuator. Two load cases are analyzed: a fixed swept-sine force and a walking load. Both cases account for the actuator-structure interaction. The human-structure interaction is considered in the latter scenario due to its importance when dealing with lightweight pedestrian structures. Simulation results demonstrate that the dynamics inversion techniques effectively cancel out actuator dynamics leading to an excellent tracking of the reference force output by the suggested or other vibration control algorithm. The proposed schemes are proved promising since they substantially outperform the widespread direct velocity feedback approach. In particular, the Broadband Force Cancellation Algorithm minimizes the action of the external forces within their estimation frequency range, thus being especially suited to tackle broadband excitations, important in lively pedestrian structures, whereas the velocity feedback methodology performs best at the structural resonant frequencies.

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