Vibration damping of a flexible car body structure using piezo-stack actuators

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-310

  Kozek, Martin ^a   Benatzky, Christian ^a   Schirrer, Alexander ^a   Stribersky, Anton ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active control; Rail traffic; Robust control; Vehicles; Vibration damping

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTIVE VIBRATION DAMPING; ANALYTIC MODELING; CAR BODIES; COSIMULATION; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FLEXIBLE CAR BODY; METRO VEHICLE; RAIL TRAFFIC; RIDE COMFORTS; ROBUST CONTROLLER DESIGN; STACK ACTUATOR; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATIONS; VIBRATION DAMPING;

ACTUATORS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CONTROLLERS; DAMPING; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; RAILROAD CARS; ROBUST CONTROL;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES;

EID: 79952068200     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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