Experimental Study of Active Vibration Control.
Abstract
Control system hardware, including velocity sensors, force actuators, and analog circuitry, has been designed, fabricated, calibrated, and tested in operation. Active vibration control in the forms of direct-velocity-feedback control and modal-space control has been implemented on a dynamically uncomplicated beam-cable structure, and theorectical simulations of the structure-control dynamics have been completed. Either correlation between experiment and theory has been satisfactory, or the reasons for unsatisfactory correlation have become clear so that corrections can be made in the future. A dynamically complicated, variable-geometry plane grid structure intended for control experiments has been built and analyzed experimentally and theoretically for its modes of vibration. The initial versions of both the actual structure and its theorectical model was unsatisfactory in some respects, and necessary improvements are almost completed at this writing. Finally, the tasks of subcontractor HR Textron are almost completed. They consist of a study of the techniques known as component cost analysis and modal cost analysis and a preliminary study of issues involved in the testing of active vibration control systems of full-size satellite structures, most specifically whether testing should be conducted on the ground or in orbit. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 15, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA133818
Entities
People
- William L. Hallauer Jr.
Organizations
- Virginia Tech