Motion and Vibration Control of a Flexible Transportation System

This paper shows a lumped modeling approach and a motion and vibration control method for a transportation system. The modeling approach is made on the premise that motion influences vibration, but that vibration doesn’t influence motion. To obtain well suppressed vibration and a robustness for the system, LQI control is adopted. It is shown that this theory has superior robustness for in motion and vibration control with variations of the parameters [1]. The control effectiveness is demonstrated through simulation experiments. The vibration modes that occur accordingly become flexible might cause a spillover instability problem. Thus, the purpose of the research is to control such vibration and motion using the modeling method presented by Seto, called the “reduced order physical modeling method” [2]. Computer simulation and control experiments are carried out and the effectiveness of the procedures presented is investigated.© 2003 ASME