Lecture 3: Active Vibration Control The Lecture Contains: Different strategies for vibration control Comparison of feed forward and feedback control Implementation of controller Smart structural control Comparison between two methods of Active Vibration Control (AVC) Important issues related to AVC file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_1.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Lecture 3: Active Vibration Control In this lecture, we will discuss about different strategies for active vibration control. Different Strategies for vibration control: Strategies (ii), (partly) (iv) and (v) are related to Active Vibration Control. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_2.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Applications of Active Vibration Control includes: a. vibration and shape control of flexible systems like optical mirror b. gitter control of high precision instruments c. active suspension system for ride comfort in advanced vehicles Application 1: Vibration & Shape Control of Optical Mirror file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_2a.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Active Control of Optical Aperture This type of mirrors are ideally suitable for light weight ultra-large space telescopes. A set of such flexible mirror segments could be assembled to form the actual mirror. The surface quality is < 30nm. Stroke requirements for such adjustments is <2µm. Usually PZT actuators are bonded behind deformable silicon mirror membranes for this purpose. An electric field applied perpendicular to the piezoelectric layer plane will induce lateral contraction and thereby cause large out of plane deformation of the membrane. Application 2: LSS: A future Interferometric Mission Error in the optical path length: nanometre file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_3.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Pointing error of individual telescope: nanoradian file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_3.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Expanded view of the legs of a 6 DOF Isolator For a 6 DOF active Isolator: Piezo -actuators offer transmission of low frequency torque and suppression of high frequency vibration isolation Alternate to piezo -actuators are Terfenol - D rod, voice-coil etc. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_4.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:06 PM]
Active Vibration Control as shown in this diagram involves design of suitable vibration sensors, processing of sensory data and then feeding back necessary signal to the actuators for vibration control. In a more abstract way the same could be depicted by a block diagram as shown here. Figure: Block diagram of AVC system where, r reference signal, e error signal, s-variable in the frequency domain, H Transfer function file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_5.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
of the sensor, G Transfer function of the vibrating system, d- disturbance, G c - Transfer function of the controller and y output/response of the system. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_5.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Occasionally, if the nature of the disturbance is known then a feed-forward technique is adopted as shown here. Figure: Feed forward block diagram file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_6.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Lecture 3: Introduction to Active Vibration Cpntrol Special cases: Shunting of mechanical energy to electrical energy This involves transformation of vibrational energy by the piezoelectric material and designing a suitable electrical network to dissipate this energy. Figure: Equivalent electrical circuit The piezoelectric patch is represented as a capacitor and a voltage source in series file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_7.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Implementation of Controller: Inertial Actuator (Electro-mechanical System) Figure: Inertial actuation system With the advent of new technologies, actuators and sensors are getting miniaturized and integrated to the structure. Thus, there is a transition from traditional active control to smart structure based active control. A case study of helicopter rotor vibration control will illustrate this. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_8.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Electro-Hydraulic Actuator Figure: Traditional Active control with Hydraulic Actuator Figure: The Hydraulic Actuator file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_9.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Smart Structural Control Figure: Smart structural control Traditional active control can essentially control a finite number of vibrating modes of a continuous system. This may create instability due to the unwanted excitation of the higher modes. Smart structural control, on the other hand, is distributed in nature. It consumes less energy, gurantees stability and could be integrated easily to the vibrating body. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_10.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Comparison between two methods of AVC Important issues related to AVC Active Vibration Control (AVC) is important when there are stringent specifications on Performance and Weight Savings. Passive solutions are in general cheaper than AVC. One should not consider that AVC will always give better performance and it can compensate for a bad design. It should be considered as the last resort. Feedback control can compensate external disturbance only in a limited band, outside the bandwidth the disturbance is actually amplified. Semi-active Vibration control is being considered as a trade-off solution. file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_11.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]
Reference Moheimani and Fleming Piezoelectric Translators for Vibration Control and Damping, Spiringer Moheimani, Halim and Fleming, Spatial control of vibration, Theory and Experiments, Series on Stability, Control and Vibration of Systems L. Meirovitch, Dynamics and Control of Structures A. Preumont, Vibration Control of Active Structures : An Introduction, Kluwer Academic D. J. Inman, Vibration with Control, Wiley Congratulations, you have finished Module 1! Click Next button to view the FAQ of this module and to go through the Self-Evaluation Test file:///d /chitra/vibration_upload/lecture3/3_12.htm[6/25/2012 12:20:07 PM]