Active vibration control

About: Active vibration control is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6770 publications have been published within this topic receiving 76599 citations. The topic is also known as: active vibration damping.

Integrated distributed sensing and active vibration suppression of flexible manipulators using distributed piezoelectrics

Abstract: Structural oscillation of flexible robot manipulators would severely hamper their operation accuracy and precision. This article presents an integrated distributed sensor and active distributed vibration actuator design for elastic or flexible robot structures. The proposed distributed sensor and actuator is a layer, or multilayer of piezoelectric material directly attached on the flexible component needed to be monitored and controlled. The integrated piezoelectric sensor/actuator can monitor the oscillation as well as actively and directly constrain the undesirable oscillation of the flexible robot manipulators by direct/converse piezoelectric effects, respectively. A general theory on the distributed sensing and active vibration control using the piezoelectric elements is first proposed. An equivalent finite element formulation is also developed. A physical model with distributed sensor/actuator is tested in laboratory; and a finite element model with the piezoelectric actuator is simulated. The distributed sensing and control effectiveness are studied.

Active vibration control device

Abstract: An active vibration control device for controlling vibration in a cantilevered member (12) and a method for the same are disclosed. The device is comprised of a cantilevered member (12) having a longitudinal axis (13) comprising a sensor (92) mounted near the free end of the member (12) to measure motion of the member (12) in a transverse direction and to produce a corresponding signal. A force generating assembly (64) is mounted to the member (12) near the free end to oppose the measured motion with a force thereby minimizing subsequent motion along the transverse axis caused by vibration.

Vibration-type driving device, control apparatus for controlling the driving of the vibration-type driving device, and electronic equipment having the vibration-type driving device and the control apparatus

Abstract: A vibration-type driving device comprises a vibration element including a driving member and an electro-mechanical energy conversion element having an electrode and arranged to displace the driving member with a driving signal supplied to the electrode, and a driven element that is kept in contact with the driving member of the vibration element. According to the driving signal supplied to the electrode of the electro-mechanical energy conversion element, the vibration element excites vibrations in two flexural vibration modes in which a direction of generation of a node in one mode is perpendicular to that in the other mode. With the use of the two flexural vibration modes, the natural vibration frequency of the vibration element can be prevented from increasing, and the position of a node occurring in one flexural vibration mode and the position of an antinode occurring in the other flexural vibration mode can be made to coincide with each other, so that the amount of displacement of the driving member can be made large.