Hybrid control of vibrations of a smart von Kármán plate

Summarization: The suppression of large vibrations of a smart thin elastic rectangular von Kármán’s plate is considered. The plate is subjected to external disturbances and generalized control forces produced by electromechanical feedback. The considered nonlinear initial-boundary value problem is spatially discretized by means of the time spectral method. The implicit Newmark-β iterative method is employed for the time integration of the obtained system of nonlinear equations of motion. Nonlinear controllers are designed, based on a fuzzy inference system. Two numerical algorithms involving a general control of displacement/velocity and a direct control of the Fourier coefficients are proposed. The techniques have been implemented within MATLAB environment with the use of the fuzzy logic toolbox. Numerical examples are presented.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: Acta Mechanic