• Title/Summary/Keyword: Flexible Cantilever Beam

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Force holding control of a finger using piezoelectric actuators

  • Jiang, Z.W.;Chonan, S.;Koseki, M;Chung, T.J.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10b
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    • pp.202-207
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    • 1993
  • A theoretical and experimental study is presented for the force holding control of a miniature robotic ringer which is driven by a pair of piezoelectric unimorph cells. In the theoretical analysis, one finger is modeled as a flexible cantilever with a tactile force sensor at the tip and the mate of the finger is a solid beam supposed with sufficient stiffness. Further, the force sensor is modeled by a one-degree-of-freedom, mass-spring system and the output of sensor is then described by the sensor stiffness multiplied by the relative displacement. The problem investigated in this paper is that two typical holding tasks of the human finger are picked up and applied to the robotic finger. One is the work holding a stationary object with a prescribed, time-varying force and the other one is to keep the contacted force constant even if the object is in motion. The simple PID feedback control scheme is used to control the minute gripping force of order 0.01 Newton. It is shown both experimentally and theoretically that the artificial finger with the piezoelectric actuator works well in the minute force holding of the tiny object.

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Lock-in and drag amplification effects in slender line-like structures through CFD

  • Belver, Ali Vasallo;Iban, Antolin Lorenzana;Rossi, Riccardo
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.189-208
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    • 2012
  • Lock-in and drag amplification phenomena are studied for a flexible cantilever using a simplified fluid-structure interaction approach. Instead of solving the 3D domain, a simplified setup is devised, in which 2D flow problems are solved on a number of planes parallel to the wind direction and transversal to the structure. On such planes, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved to estimate the fluid action at different positions of the line-like structure. The fluid flow on each plane is coupled with the structural deformation at the corresponding position, affecting the dynamic behaviour of the system. An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach is used to take in account the deformation of the domain, and a fractional-step scheme is used to solve the fluid field. The stabilization of incompressibility and convection is achieved through orthogonal quasi-static subscales, an approach that is believed to provide a first step towards turbulence modelling. In order to model the structural problem, a special one-dimensional element for thin walled cross-section beam is implemented. The standard second-order Bossak method is used for the time integration of the structural problem.

An Experimental Study on the Control of Stochastic Dynamic MIMO System using the Smart material (다중입출력 확률계의 지능재료를 이용한 제어에대한 실험적연구)

  • Cho, Kyoung-Lae;Kim, Yong-Kwan;Oh, Soo-Young;Heo, Hoon;Pak, Sang-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.1292-1297
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    • 2000
  • For dynamic system under the external irregular disturbance, a performance of the controller designed by using of the 'Heo-stochastic control methodology' is investigated by simulations and experiments. MIMO Flexible cantilever beam, sticked with piezoceramics used as a sensor and actuator, under the irregular disturbance at bottom is modelled in physical domain. Dynamic moment equation about the system is derived through both the Ito's stochastic differential equation and Fokker-Planck-Kolmogoroff equation and also system's characteristics in stochastic domain is analyzed. In this study, the controller suppresses the amplitude of the system's moment response to the external disturbance. MIMO PI controller('Heo-stochastic MIMO PI controller') is designed in the stochastic domain and the response characteristics are investigated in the time domain

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A new hybrid vibration control methodology using a combination of magnetostrictive and hard damping alloys

  • Buravalla, Vidyashankar R.;Bhattacharya, Bishakh
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.405-422
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    • 2007
  • A new hybrid damping technique for vibration reduction in flexible structures, wherein a combination of layers of hard passive damping alloys and active (smart) magnetostrictive material is used to reduce vibrations, is proposed. While most conventional vibration control treatments are based exclusively on either passive or active based systems, this technique aims to combine the advantages of these systems and simultaneously, to overcome the inherent disadvantages in the individual systems. Two types of combined damping systems are idealized and studied here, viz., the Noninteractive system and the Interactive system. Frequency domain studies are carried out to investigate their performance. Finite element simulations using previously developed smart beam elements are carried out on typical metallic and laminated composite cantilever beams treated with hybrid damping. The influence of various parameters like excitation levels, frequency (mode) and control gain on the damping performance is investigated. It is shown that the proposed system could be used effectively to dampen the structural vibration over a wide frequency range. The interaction between the active and passive damping layers is brought out by a comparative study of the combined systems. Illustrative comparisons with 'only passive' and 'only active' damping schemes are also made. The influence and the mode dependence of control gain in a hybrid system is clearly illustrated. This study also demonstrates the significance and the exploitation of strain dependency of passive damping on the overall damping of the hybrid system. Further, the influence of the depthwise location of damping layers in laminated structures is also investigated.

Non-Dimensional Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Beam Using Linear Stiffness Matrix in Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation (절대절점좌표계에서 선형 강성행렬을 활용한 2차원 보의 무차원 해석)

  • Kim, Kun Woo;Lee, Jae Wook;Jang, Jin Seok;Oh, Joo Young;Kang, Ji Heon;Kim, Hyung Ryul;Yoo, Wan Suk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2017
  • Absolute nodal coordinate formulation was developed in the mid-1990s, and is used in the flexible dynamic analysis. In the process of deriving the equation of motion, if the order of polynomial referring to the displacement field increases, then the degrees of freedom increase, as well as the analysis time increases. Therefore, in this study, the primary objective was to reduce the analysis time by transforming the dimensional equation of motion to a non-dimensional equation of motion. After the shape function was rearranged to be non-dimensional and the nodal coordinate was rearranged to be in length dimension, the non-dimensional mass matrix, stiffness matrix, and conservative force was derived from the non-dimensional variables. The verification and efficiency of this non-dimensional equation of motion was performed using two examples; cantilever beam which has the exact solution about static deflection and flexible pendulum.

An Assumed Strain Beam Element for Spatial Post-Buckling Analysis of Non-symmetric and Shear Flexible Thin-Walled Beams (박벽보의 3차원 후좌굴 해석을 위한 Locking-Free 보요소)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Chan;Kim, Moon-Young;Park, Jung-Il;Chang, Sung-Pil
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.719-730
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    • 2007
  • This study presents a thin-walled space frame element based on the classical Timoshenko beam theory. The element is derived according to the assumed strain field in order to resolve the shear-locking phenomenon. The shape function is developed in accordance with the strain field which is assumed to be constant at a 2-noded straight frame element. In this study, the geometrically nonlinear analysis applies the Corotational procedure in order to evaluate unbalanced loads. The bowing effect is also considered faithfully. Two numerical examples are given; monosymmetric curved and nonsymmetric straight cantilever. When these example structures behave lateral-torsional bucking, the critical loads are obtained by this study and ABAQUS shell elements. Also, the post-buckling behavior is examined. The results give good agreement between this study and ABAQUS shell.