Non-Obstructive Particle Damping (NOPD) technology is a passive vibration damping approach whereby metallic or non-metallic particles in spherical or irregular shapes, of heavy or light consistency, and even liquid particles are placed inside cavities or attached to structures by an appropriate means at strategic locations, to absorb vibration energy. The objective of the work described herein ...

In the present paper, a new scheme for damping torsional modes in a series compensated power system has been developed. The proposed scheme, utilizes the effectiveness of combined active power and frequency (C.A.P.F.) SVS auxiliary controller in co-ordination with an induction machine damping unit coupled to the T-G shaft. Studies are conducted on the first IEEE benchmark model. The damping sch...

Power system stabilizer (PSS) is one of the most important controllers in modern power systems for damping low frequency oscillations. Many efforts have been dedicated to design the tuning methodologies and allocation techniques to obtain optimal damping behaviors of the system. Traditionally, it is tuned mostly for local damping performance, however, in order to obtain a globally optimal perfo...

abstract This paper presents a simple and robust method of designing the lossy-transmission-line interconnects in a network for multichip modules. This method uses wire-sizing entirely to meet the electrical damping criteria to solve the problems encountered in propagating high-speed signals through unterminated lossy transmission lines on the substrates of multichip modules (MCM). The optimal ...

We consider a stabilization problem for abstract second-order evolution equations with dynamic boundary feedback laws with a delay and distributed structural damping. We prove an exponential stability result under a suitable condition between the internal damping and the boundary laws. The proof of the main result is based on an identity with multipliers that allows to obtain a uniform decay es...

In engineering practice, damping control is a usual method for stabilization. In this paper we consider nonlinear affine systems. We show that if there exists a feedback law which provides sufficiently fast convergence of trajectories (rational stabilization) then the system can also be stabilized by damping control. Our construction relies on a Liapunov function, which is basically defined as ...

Recent work in the field of robotics optimal control has focused on designing and employing variable impedance actuators. Such actuators provide a high dynamic range and fast response. Until now, impedance modulation has been restricted to physical stiffness alone, while its other components, such as damping, are set to a fixed value. In this work the influence of introducing variable damping i...

In this paper, the optimal design of supplementary controller parameters of a unified powerflow controller(UPFC) for damping low-frequency oscillations in a weakly connected systemis investigated. The individual design of the UPFC controller, using hybrid particle swarmoptimization and gravitational search algorithm (PSOGSA)technique under 3 loadingoperating conditions, is discussed. The effect...

This study firstly proposes some representative simple methods to obtain the suboptimal passive damping and stiffness parameters from the optimal control gain matrix since it is not possible to add the exact optimal damping and stiffness parameters to the structure in practice. It is shown numerically that modifying the structural damping and the stiffness in the proposed suboptimal ways may su...