Active Neuro-control for Seismically Excited Structure using Modal states as the Input of the Neuro-controller

모달 변위를 이용한 지진하중을 받는 구조물의 능동 신경망제어

A new active neuro-control strategy for seismic response reduction using modal states is proposed. In order to apply the neuro-control strategy to the given structural system it is needed to select state variables used as inputs into the neural network. If the degrees of freedom of the analytical model is large, there are so many possible combinations of the state variables. And selecting state variables is very complicated and troublesome task for the designer. In order to avoid this problem, the proposed control system adopts modal states as inputs. Since the modal states contain the information of the whole structural system's behavior, it is proper to use modal states as inputs of the neuro-controller. The simulation results show that the proposed the proposed active neuro-control strategy is quite effective to reduce seismic responses. In addition, the consuming time for training proposed neuro-controller is quite shorter than that for the conventional neuro- controller. The results of this investigation, therefore, indicate that the proposed active neuro-control strategy using modal states as the inputs could be effectively used for control seismically excited structures.