Machining is a complex process that requires a high degree of precision with tight geometrical tolerance and surface finish. Those are confronted by the existence of vibration in the turning machine tool. Overcoming a micro level vibration of a cutting tool using smart materials can save old machines and enhance flexibility in designing new generations of machine tools. Using smart materials to...

The Dynamics Research Group (DRG) based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University ofSheffield conducts research into vibrations and the dynamics of structures. The main areas of research are:nonlinear dynamics, structural health monitoring, active and passive vibration control, smart materials andstructures and acoustics.In the field of nonlinear dynamics, th...

The development of control systems for a two degreeof-freedom vibration suppression system using a magnetorheological (MR) fluid damper is the subject of this paper. It is assumed that system encounters impulsive disturbance forces. The objective is to use the (MR) fluid damper for the position control and vibration suppression of the payload. The control force is generated by regulating the el...

Abstract– In this paper, vibration suppression and control of a smart flexible satellite maneuvering in a circular orbit are studied. The satellite is considered as a rigid hub and two flexible appendages with PZT (lead zirconate titanate) layers attached on them as sensors and actuators. Flexible satellite governing equations of motion are obtained using Lagrange-RayleighRitz technique and ass...

In this paper, an active control structure used piezoelectric stack actuator is built to suppress vibration due to internal incentive in gear transmission. Because the gear system is timevariant and unknown, an offline modeling technique is unable to tracking the changes in the secondary path, an adaptive filter algorithm used online secondary path modeling method is proposed to the active vibr...

In this paper, the academic wireless monitoring system with smart sensing units developed at Stanford University and Michigan University is applied for the ambient vibration study of a steel arch bridge in Xiamen, China. Ambient acceleration responses of the bridge measured by the wireless sensing units are compared with those collected by a traditional wire-based data acquisition system. Clock...

This paper is has addressed the Single Flexible Link Robot. The dynamical model is derived using Euler-Lagrange equation and then a proper controller is designed to suppress a  vibration based-on Input-Shaping (IS) method. But, IS control method is an open loop strategy. Due to the weakness of open loop control systems, a closed loop IS control system is proposed. The achieved closed loop c...

This paper presents a Gaussian radial basis function neural network based on sliding mode control for trajectory tracking and vibration control of a flexible joint manipulator. To study the effectiveness of the controllers, designed controller is developed for tip angular position control of a flexible joint manipulator. The adaptation laws of designed controller are obtained based on sliding m...

Control of noise and vibration emitted by steel wheel and rail transportation systems has a long history of designs and techniques, some of which were dismal failures and some which worked very well. Many of the early efforts had a valid technical base for the design, however, there were also many based on intuition or ideas with great expectations, but which had no real technical basis. In the...