Active vibration control of flexible steel cantilever beam using piezoelectric actuators

Considerable attention has been devoted recently to active vibration control using intelligent materials as actuators. This paper presents results on active control schemes for vibration suppression of flexible steel cantilever beam with bonded piezoelectric actuators. The PZT patches are surface bonded near the fixed end of flexible steel cantilever beam. The dynamic model of the flexible steel cantilever beam is derived. Active vibration control methods, such as optimized parameter PID compensator, strain rate feedback control are investigated and implemented using xPC target real-time system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods achieve effective vibration suppression results of steel cantilever beam.

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