Advances in Modeling and Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems
Invited Lecturers
- Ben M. Chen (Nat. University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)
6 lectures on: Modeling and control of hard disk drives.
Modeling, robust control and composite nonlinear feedback control. Single-stage or dual-stage voice-coil-motor actuators. Modeling and compensation of friction and nonlinearities. Software package on the hard disk drive control will be demonstrated and distributed.- Robert Clark (Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0300, USA)
8 lectures on: Modeling and control of adaptive structures.
Overview of adaptive structures, structural dynamics primer, structural acoustics primer, sensors and actuators, controller design, application/examples- Wodek Gawronski (California Institute of Techn., Pasadena, Cal., USA)
7 lectures on: Modeling and control of antennas and telescopes.
Antenna models: analytical and from the system identification; modal and balanced models; system norms; model reduction; sensor and actuator placement; LQG controller design.- Giancarlo Genta (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
6 lectures on: Modeling and control of rotating systems.
Simple models of rotating systems, effects of damping on flexible rotor dynamics, gyroscopic effect, dynamics of multi degree if freedom rotors, dynamics of controlled rotors, reduced models for the control of rotating systems. The lectures include numerical and physical experiments.- Stanislaw Pietrzko (EMPA-Swiss Federal Lab.for Mat, Duebendorf, Switzerland)
4 lectures on: Modeling and control of sound radiation and transmission.
Principles and modeling of sound radiation and transmission from flexible structures, feedforward and feedback control of sound radiation and transmission, and sensors and actuators for active noise control.- Andre Preumont (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
6 lectures on: Modeling and control of piezoelectric structures.
Passive and active damping with piezoelectric transducers; Piezoelectric beams and shells, distributed filters; Collocated control systems; Active damping of cable structures; Active vibration isolation.