• Wind and Structures
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.323-340
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• 2013

An active mass damper system for flutter control of bridges is presented. Flutter stability of bridge structures is improved with the help of eccentric rotational actuators (ERA). By using a bridge girder model that moves in two degrees of freedom and is subjected to wind, the equations of motion of the controlled structure equipped with ERA are established. In order to take structural nonlinearities into consideration, flutter analysis is carried out by numerical simulation scheme based on a 4th-order Runge-Kutta algorithm. An example demonstrates the performance and efficiency of the proposed device. In comparison with known active mass dampers for flutter control, the movable eccentric mass damper and the rotational mass damper, the power demand is significantly reduced. This is of advantage for an implementation of the proposed device in real bridge girders. A preliminary design of a realization of ERA in a bridge girder is presented.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.387-396
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• 2005

The Rotational/Translational Actuator (RTAC) benchmark problem considers a fourth-order dynamical system involving the nonlinear interaction of a translational oscillator and an eccentric rotational proof mass. This problem has been posed to investigate the utility of a rotational actuator for stabilizing translational motion. In order to experimentally implement any of the model-based controllers proposed in the literature, the values of model parameters are required which are generally difficult to determine rigorously. In this paper, an approach to the least-squares estimation of the parameters of a system is formulated and practically applied to the RTAC system. On the other hand, this paper shows how to model a nonlinear system as a linear uncertain system via nonparametric system identification, in order to provide the information required for linear robust $H_\infty$ control design. This method is also applied to the RTAC system, which demonstrates severe nonlinearities, due to the coupling from the rotational motion to the translational motion. Experimental results confirm that this approach can effectively condense the whole nonlinearities, uncertainties, and disturbances within the system into a favorable perturbation block.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1202-1209
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• 2004

This paper presents a design methodology of a Digital Servo Signal Processor for high speed CD-RW drive systems. The proposed Digital Servo Signal Processor enables us to develop CD-related systems for the very high speed applications and is one of the key components of the CD-RW systems. The proposed center compensation servo control is newly built for an actuator shaking due to the fast response of a step motor when it jumps to a long distance. A control method compensating for eccentricity of a disc is implemented for operating robustly at a higher rotational speed. This servo mechanism is more size efficient and less power consumed because it is implemented using a ARM7 embedded processor and hardware digital filters. Furthermore, it is convenient to upgrade firmware for the future required functions. From experimental results, we can see that the performance of the control system is improved greatly. The proposed servo algorithm shows a shorter setting time including a pull-in time and a faster access time. It can be applied easily to the DVD-ROM and the DVD-RAM which have the same optical structure.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.359-364
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• 2013

직선형 진동모터가 휴대전화의 알림용이나 햅틱 인터페이스의 구동기로 적용되려면 빠른 응답속도와 긴 수명을 제공하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 직선형 진동모터를 개선하여 보이스 코일 구동기와 영구자석 스프링을 이용한 직선형 진동모터를 제시하고, 설계 제작하여 그 가능성을 검증하였다. Halbach 배열의 영구자석에 의해 구동되는 보이스 코일 구동기와 영구자석 간의 반발력을 이용하는 영구자석 스프링을 해석하고 설계하기 위해, 등가전류판 방법과 이미지 방법을 사용하였고, 방법의 적절성을 유한요소해석을 통해 검증하였다. 시작품 모터를 설계하고 제작하고, 실험을 통해 진동모터의 특성을 확인하였다.