Active Piezoelectric Actuation and Control of Highly Flexible Multifunctional Wings

Both active actuation and energy harvesting of highly flexible wings using piezoelectric transduction are studied in this paper. The piezoelectric effect is included in a strain-based geometrically nonlinear beam formulation. The resulting structural dynamic equations for multifunctional beams are then coupled with a finite-state unsteady aerodynamic formulation, allowing for piezoelectric energy harvesting and actuation with the nonlinear aeroelastic system. With the development, it is possible to provide an integral aeroelastic and electromechanical solution of concurrent active control and piezoelectric energy harvesting for wing vibrations, with the considering the geometrical nonlinear effects of slender multifunctional wings. In this paper, LQR and LQG controllers are developed for the active control of wing vibrations. The controllers demonstrate effective gust alleviation capabilities. Furthermore, a concurrent active vibration control and energy harvesting can also be realized for the multifunctional wing system with embedded piezoelectric materials.

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