A General Adaptive Feedforward Compensation Algorithm for Active Vibration Control with Mechanical Coupling and Local Feedback

Adaptive feedforward broadband vibration (or noise) compensation is currently used when a correlated measurement with the disturbance is available. Most of the active vibration control systems feature an internal ”positive” mechanical feedback between the compensation system and the reference source (a correlated measurement with the disturbance). Such systems have often also a feedback control loop for reducing the effect of disturbances. For stability reasons the adaptation algorithms require the implementation of a filter on observed data or a filtering of the residual acceleration in order to satisfy some passivity conditions. Recently the use of the ”Integral + Proportional” (IP) adaptation has been proposed. The paper provides a general algorithms for the adaptive feedforward compensation which includes as particular cases the various algorithms presented in the literature. The algorithm has been applied to an active vibration control system.