Vibration Control of Disturbed All-Clamped Plate with an Inertial Actuator Based on Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control

Abstract

In this paper, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is applied to the vibration control of the all-clamped plate structure with an inertial actuator. Knowing that modeling uncertainties, dynamic nonlinearities and multivariable couplings are often the major causes of a downgrading performance and instability, a cascade ADRC controller is, hence, utilized to mitigate the effects of these issues. The dynamics regarding the all-clamped plate structure and inertial actuator are obtained through theoretical analysis and experimental testing. Furthermore, the real-time control experimental verification is carried out on the hardware-in-the-loop platform based on the NI PCIe-6343 data acquisition card. The comparative experimental results show that the proposed cascade ADRC controller has a better vibration suppression performance, disturbance rejection performance and decoupling ability.