Vibration control for parametrically excited Liénard systems

We apply a new vibration control method for time delay non-linear oscillators to the principal resonance of a parametrically excited Liénard system under state feedback control with a time delay. Using the asymptotic perturbation method, we obtain two slow flow equations on the amplitude and phase. Their fixed points correspond to limit cycles for the Liénard system. Vibration control and high-amplitude response suppression can be performed with appropriate time delay and feedback gains. Using energy considerations, we investigate existence and characteristics of limit cycles of the slow flow equations. A limit cycle corresponds to a two-period quasi-periodic modulated motion for the starting system and in order to reduce the amplitude peak of the parametric resonance and to exclude the existence of two-period quasi-periodic motion, we find the appropriate choices for the feedback gains and the time delay.     

参数激励下非线性受控系统的动力学和稳定性

研究两自由度参数激励系统的非线性动力学与控制问题．利用Lagrange方程建立含反馈控制的参激捅及其驱动机构组成的系统动力学方程，以多尺度方法获得一阶近似控制方程．然后，对系统受一阶摸态参激主共振与一、二阶模态间3：1内共振联合作用下的幅额响应及其稳定性，以及反馈参数对系统稳态行为的影响作了详细分析．结果表明，响应的稳定域位置和大小取决于位移反馈，位移立方反馈改变了系统的非线性程度，速度反馈类似于阻尼，可使系统呈现自激振动特性．     

Dynamics of a Jeffcott rotor-magnetic bearing system with time delays

A Jeffcott rotor with an additional magnetic bearing locating at the disc is employed to investigate the effect of time delays on the non-linear dynamical behavior of the system. The time delays are presented in the proportional and derivative feedback, respectively. For the corresponding autonomous system, a linear stability analysis is performed for the system with two identical time delays in the control loop. The nature of a single Hopf bifurcation is determined by constructing a center manifold. For the non-autonomous system, the primary resonance response is studied for its small non-linear motions using the method of averaging. The effects of time delays and control gains, as well as excitation amplitude, on the amplitude of the steady-state response are investigated. Finally, experiments are carried out to validate the theoretical predictions.     

Non-linear vibrations of cantilever beams with feedback delays

A comprehensive investigation of the effect of feedback delays on the non-linear vibrations of a piezoelectrically actuated cantilever beam is presented. In the first part of this work, we examine the linear and non-linear free responses of a beam subjected to a delayed-acceleration feedback. We show that the trivial solution loses stability via a Hopf bifurcation leading to limit-cycle oscillations. We analyze the stability of the dynamic response in the postbifurcation, close to the stability boundaries by examining the nature of the Hopf bifurcation and away from the stability boundaries by using the method of harmonic balance and Floquet theory. We find that, increasing the gain for certain feedback delays may culminate in quasiperiodic and chaotic oscillations of the beam.In the second part, we analyze the effect of feedback delays on a beam subjected to a harmonic base excitations. We find that the nature of the forced response is largely defined by the stability of the trivial solutions of the unforced response. For stable trivial solutions (i.e., inside the stability boundaries of the trivial solutions), the homogeneous response emanating from the feedback diminishes, leaving only the particular solution resulting from the external excitation. In this case, delayed feedback acts as a vibration absorber. On the other hand, for unstable trivial solutions, the response contains two co-existing frequencies. Depending on the excitation amplitude and the commensurability of the delayed-response frequency to the excitation frequency, the response is either periodic or quasiperiodic.     

Enhanced damping of a cantilever beam by axial parametric excitation

A uniform cantilever beam under the effect of a time-periodic axial force is investigated. The beam structure is discretized by a finite-element approach. The linearised equations of motion describing the planar bending vibrations of the beam structure lead to a system with time-periodic stiffness coefficients. The stability of the system is investigated by a numerical method based on Floquet’s theorem and an analytical approach resulting from a first-order perturbation. It is demonstrated that the parametrically excited beam structure exhibits enhanced damping properties, when excited near a specific parametric combination resonance frequency. A certain level of the forcing amplitude has to be exceeded to achieve the damping effect. Upon exceeding this value, the additional artificial damping provided to the beam is significant and works best for suppression of vibrations of the first vibrational mode of the cantilever beam.     

Experimental studies on active control of a dynamic system via a time-delayed absorber

The traditional passive absorber is fully effective within a narrow and certain frequency band.To solve this problem,a time-delayed acceleration feedback is introduced to convert a passive absorber into an active one.Both the inherent and the intentional time delays are included.The former mainly comes from signal acquiring and processing,computing,and applying the actuation force,and its value is fixed.The latter is introduced in the controller,and its value is actively adjustable.Firstly,the mechanical model is established and the frequency response equations are obtained.The regions of stability are delineated in the plane of control parameters.Secondly,the design scheme of control parameters is performed to help select the values of the feedback gain and time delay.Thirdly,the experimental studies are conducted.Effects of both negative and positive feedback control are investigated.Experimental results show that the proper choices of control parameters may broaden the effective frequency band of vibration absorption.Moreover,the time-delayed absorber greatly suppresses the resonant response of the primary system when the passive absorber totally fails.The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions and numerical simulations.     

Stability and bifurcation in an electromechanical system with time delays

The effect of time delays occurring in a proportional-integral-derivative feedback controller on the linear stability of a simple electromechanical system is investigated by analyzing the characteristic transcendental equation. It is found that the trivial fixed point of the system can lose its stability through Hopf bifurcations when the time delay crosses certain critical values. Codimension two bifurcations, which result from non-resonant and resonant Hopf–Hopf bifurcation interactions, are also found to exist in the system.     

多自由度参激系统稳定性的数值分析

提出多自由度周期参激系统稳定性的数值直接法。通过将扰动方程表示成状态方程形式,再根据Flo-quet理论将扰动解表示成指数特征分量与周期分量之积,并将其周期分量与系统周期系数展成Fourier级数,导出一系列代数方程,建立矩阵特征值问题,从而由数值求解特征值可直接确定参激系统的稳定性。该方法可用于一般周期参激阻尼系统,特征值矩阵不含逆子阵。应用于斜拉索在支座周期运动激励下的参激振动不稳定性分析,数值结果表明该方法的有效性。     

柔性梁受迫振动时滞变结构控制的试验研究

时滞反馈控制是一种利用时滞进行系统控制的策略,目前对该控制策略的研究多是在理论上进行探讨,少有试验研究报道. 以受简谐激励的柔性悬臂梁为对象,开展时滞反馈控制的试验研究,给出了一个多时滞控制律的设计方法. 首先给出悬臂梁系统含有时滞项的控制模态状态方程; 然后对方程进行离散化和一种特殊的状态变量增广,得到形式上不含有时滞项的标准差分方程; 最后使用离散变结构控制的方法设计控制律. 试验中采用压电片作为作动器和外界激励,应变片作为传感器,分别考虑单时滞和双时滞的情况,通过试验验证了时滞反馈控制的可行性和有效性.关键词:柔性悬臂梁;变结构控制;时滞;实验      

Vibration control of a cantilever beam of varying orientation

We investigate the problem of suppressing the vibrations of a non-linear system with a cantilever beam of varying orientation subject to parametric and direct excitation. It is known that the growth of the response is limited by non-linearity. Therefore, vibration control and high-amplitude response suppressions of the first mode of a cantilever beam can be performed using a simple non-linear feedback law. This control law is based on cubic velocity feedback. The method of multiples scales is used to construct first-order non-linear ordinary differential equations governing the modulation of the amplitudes and phases. The stability and effects of different system parameters are studied numerically.     

Control techniques for impacting flexible systems

Summary In this article, a comparative study of the control for the repetitive impacting elastic link with parametrically excited base in rotational motion is considered. First, a sliding mode control strategy based on linearized inverse model is designed and employed to suppress the vibrations of the elastic beam after the impact. The control concept involves the usage of an adaptive plant inverse model as controller in feedforward configurations. Next, a linear controller is designed via Lyapunov-Floquet transformation. In this approach, the time-periodic equations of motion are transformed into a time-invariant form, which is suitable for the application of standard time-invariant controller-design techniques. Finally, a fuzzy logic controller is applied for the nonlinear model of the impacting system. The momentum balance method and an empirical coefficient of restitution is used in the collision. Received 27 January 1999; accepted for publication 3 June 1999     

Vibration control of a transversely excited cantilever beam with tip mass

The problem of controlling the vibration of a transversely excited cantilever beam with tip mass is analyzed within the framework of the Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. A sinusoidally varying transverse excitation is applied at the left end of the cantilever beam, while a payload is attached to the free end of the beam. An active control of the transverse vibration based on cubic velocity is studied. Here, cubic velocity feedback law is proposed as a devise to suppress the vibration of the system subjected to primary and subharmonic resonance conditions. Method of multiple scales as one of the perturbation technique is used to reduce the second-order temporal equation into a set of two first-order differential equations that govern the time variation of the amplitude and phase of the response. Then the stability and bifurcation of the system is investigated. Frequency–response curves are obtained numerically for primary and subharmonic resonance conditions for different values of controller gain. The numerical results portrayed that a significant amount of vibration reduction can be obtained actively by using a suitable value of controller gain. The response obtained using method of multiple scales is compared with those obtained by numerically solving the temporal equation of motion and are found to be in good agreement. Numerical simulation for amplitude is also obtained by integrating the equation of motion in the frequency range between 1 and 3. The developed results can be extensively used to suppress the vibration of a transversely excited cantilever beam with tip mass or similar systems actively.     

RESPONSE OF PARAMETRICALLY EXCITED DUFFING-VAN DER POL OSCILLATOR WITH DELAYED FEEDBACK

The dynamical behaviour of a parametrically excited Duffing-van der Pol oscillator under linear-plus-nonlinear state feedback control with a time delay is concerned. By means of the method of averaging together with truncation of Taylor expansions, two slow-flow equations on the amplitude and phase of response were derived for the case of principal parametric resonance. It is shown that the stability condition for the trivial solution is only associated with the linear terms in the original systems besides the amplitude and frequency of parametric excitation. And the trivial solution can be stabilized by appreciate choice of gains and time delay in feedback control. Different from the case of the trivial solution, the stability condition for nontrivial solutions is also associated with nonlinear terms besides linear terms in the original system. It is demonstrated that nontrivial steady state responses may lose their stability by saddle-node (SN) or Hopf bifurcation (HB) as parameters vary. The simulations, obtained by numerically integrating the original system, are in good agreement with the analytical results.     

Arbitrary amplitude periodic solutions for parametrically excited systems with time delay

Periodic solutions for parametrically excited system under state feedback control with a time delay are investigated. Using the asymptotic perturbation method, two slow-flow equations for the amplitude and phase of the parametric resonance response are derived. Their fixed points correspond to limit cycles (phase-locked periodic solutions) for the starting system. In the system without control, periodic solutions (if any) exist only for fixed values of amplitude and phase and depend on the system parameters and excitation amplitude. In many cases, the amplitudes of periodic solutions do not correspond to the technical requirements. On the contrary, it is demonstrated that, if the vibration control terms are added, stable periodic solutions with arbitrarily chosen amplitude and phase can be accomplished. Therefore, an effective vibration control is possible if appropriate time delay and feedback gains are chosen.     

Bifurcation Control of Parametrically Excited Duffing System by a Combined Linear-Plus-Nonlinear Feedback Control

For a parametrically excited Duffing system we propose a bifurcation control method in order to stabilize the trivial steady state in the frequency response and in order to eliminate jump in the force response, by employing a combined linear-plus-nonlinear feedback control. Because the bifurcation of the system is characterized by its modulation equations, we first determine the order of the feedback gain so that the feedback modifies the modulation equations. By theoretically analyzing the modified modulation equations, we show that the unstable region of the trivial steady state can be shifted and the nonlinear character can be changed, by means of the bifurcation control with the above feedback. The shift of the unstable region permits the stabilization of the trivial steady state in the frequency response, and the suppression of the discontinuous bifurcation due to the change of the nonlinear character allows the elimination of the jump in the quasistationary force response. Furthermore, by performing numerical simulations, and by comparing the responses of the uncontrolled system and the controlled one, we clarify that the proposed bifurcation control is available for the stabilization of the trivial steady state in the frequency response and for the reduction of the jump in the nonstationary force response.     

周期变速旋转运动电流变夹层梁的参激振动

采用多尺度法对周期变速旋转运动电流变夹层梁的动力稳定性进行了研究. 假设电流变夹层梁绕固定轴线做随时间变化的简谐周期运动,将变速度转动梁作为一个时变参激振动系统,分析了不同结构和控制参数对失稳区域的影响. 仿真结果表明,改变外加控制电场强度的大小和梁的结构参数,可改变旋转电流变夹层梁发生动力失稳的临界角速度和失稳区域. 故在一定的条件下,可以通过控制作用于电流变夹层梁的电场强度来调节旋转运动柔性梁的振动特性,提高结构的动力稳定性.      

ACTIVE CONTROL OF A FLEXIBLE CANTILEVER PLATE WITH MULTIPLE TIME DELAYS

Active control of a flexible cantilever plate with multiple time delays is investigated using the discrete optimal control method. A controller with multiple time delays is presented. In this controller, time delay effect is incorporated in the mathematical model of the dynamic system throughout the control design and no approximations and assumptions are made in the controller derivation, so the system stability is easily guaranteed. Furthermore, this controller is available for both small time delays and large time delays. The feasibility and efficiency of the proposed controller are verified through numerical simulations in the end of this paper.     

Parametrically Excited Non-Linear Traveling Beams with and without External Forcing

The effects of parametric excitation on a traveling beam, both with and without an external harmonic excitation, have been studied including the non-linear terms. Non-linear, complex normal modes have been used for the response analysis. Detailed numerical results are presented to show the effects of non-linearity on the stability of the parametrically excited system. In the presence of both parametric and external harmonic excitations, the response characteristics are found to be similar to that of a Duffing oscillator. The results are sensitive to the relative strengths of and the phase difference between the two forms of excitations.     

Using the delayed feedback control and saturation control to suppress the vibration of the dynamical system

In the present paper, the delayed feedback control is applied to suppress or stabilize the vibration of the primary system in a two degree-of-freedom dynamical system with parametrically excited pendulum. The case of a 1:2 internal resonance between pendulum and primary system is studied. The method of multiple scales is applied to obtain second-order approximations of the response of the system. The system stability and bifurcations of equilibrium point of the averaged equations are computed. It is shown that the delayed feedback control can be used to suppress the vibration or stabilize the system when the saturation control is invalid. The vibration of the primary system can be suppressed by the delayed feedback control when the original system is in the single-mode motion. The effect of gain and delay on the vibration suppression is discussed. As the delay varies at a fixed value of the gain, the vibration of the primary system can be suppressed at some values of the delay. The vibration suppression performance of the system is improved at a large value of the gain. The vibration of the primary system could be suppressed about 56% compared with the original system by choosing the appropriate values of gain and delay. The delayed feedback control also can be used to stabilize the system when the original system is unstable. The gain and delay could be chosen as the controlling parameters. Numerical simulation is agreement with the analytical solutions well.     

Fuzzy-logic control of parametrically excited impacting flexible system

Summary In this article, the control of a repetitive impacting elastic link with parametrically excited base in rotational motion is considered. A fuzzy-logic controller is designed and employed to suppress the vibrations resulting after the impact with an external rigid body. The momentum balance method and an empirical coefficient of restitution is used in the collision of the two bodies. The controller is applied successfully to reduce the vibrations of the parametrically excited impacting flexible system. Simulations for several combinations of excitation and rotation parameters are provided. Received 21 April 1997; accepted for publication 12 September 1997