Development of controller graphical user interface for vibration suppression of flexible beam

This study proposes the implementation of Active Vibration Control (AVC) via a well-designed Graphical User Interface (GUI) to suppress the unwanted vibration of flexible beam system. The flexible beam system is the model to be controlled which is obtained from System Identification technique. A Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller is implemented in this study with three types of tuning methods: Heuristic tuning, auto-tuning, and Particle Swarm Optimization tuning. A GUI controller is designed and developed using MATLAB platform. The GUI controller is a user friendly application that can be implemented for controller design and learning. The results are displayed in graphical plots and numerical values. In this study, the GUI controller is well-designed and implemented successfully for controller design. In addition, it was found that PI controller with auto tuning has the superiority in vibration suppression of the flexible beam system