Numerous vibration control techniques, employing both passive and active methods, have been developed and tested over the last several decades. Some of these techniques are in widespread use, while others have rarely or never left the laboratory. This paper considers the value that vibration damping and control of aircraft fins and appendage structures can have in reducing loads and subsequent ...

An adaptive truss structure with self-learning active vibration control system is developed. A fuzzy-neural network (FNN) controller with adaptive membership functions is presented. The experimental setup of a two-bay truss structure with active members is constructed, and the FNN controller is applied to vibration suppression of the truss. The controller first senses the output of the accelero...

This paper presents a new approach to vibration reduction of >exible spacecraft during attitude control by using pulse width pulse frequency (PWPF) modulator for thruster Cring and smart materials for active vibration suppression. The experiment was conducted on the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)’s >exible spacecraft simulator (FSS), which consists of a central rigid body and an L-shape >exibl...