ROBUST MIXED H2/H8 ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROLLER IN ATTENUATION OF SMART BEAM

The lack of robustness of the mechanical systems due to the unmodeled dynamics and the external disturbances withholds the performance and optimality of the structures. In this paper, this deficiency is obviated in order to reach the desired robust stability and performance on smart structures. For this purpose a multi-objective robust control strategy is proposed for vibration suppression of a clamped-free smart beam with piezoelectric actuator and vibrometer sensor in an LMI framework which is capable of handling weighted exogenous input signals and provides desired pole placement and robust performance at the same time. An accurate model of a homogeneous beam is derived by means of the finite element modal analysis. Then a low order modal system is considered as the nominal model and remaining modes are left as the multiplicative unstructured uncertainty. Next, a robust controller with a regional pole placement constraint is designed based on the augmented plant composed of the nominal model and its accompanied uncertainty by solving a convex optimization problem. Finally, the robustness of the uncertain closed-loop model and the effect of performance index weights on the system output are investigated both in simulation and practice.