Semi-active vibration control of structural systems based on a reference active control law: output emulation approach

Abstract

Summary A new semi-active control strategy that approximates a predicted control output of a reference active control is proposed. A variable parameter of a semi-active control device is selected at every time instant so that the predicted control output of the semi-active control system becomes close to the corresponding predicted control output of the reference active control as much as possible. Parameters of the reference active control law are optimized in the premise of the aforementioned ‘output emulation’ strategy so that the control performance of the semi-active control becomes good and the ‘error’ in the sense of achieved control performance between the reference active control and semi-active control systems becomes small. A pole placement method based on a linear matrix inequality (LMI) framework is adopted as the reference active control law. Parameters to determine the domain in the complex plane where the closed-loop poles are placed are searched so that control performance of the semi-active control system based on the output emulation approach is optimized. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.