Active vibration control of a three-stage tensegrity structure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5386, Issue , 2004, Pages 340-346

  Chan, Wai Leung ^a   Arbelaez, Diego ^a   Bossens, Frederic ^a   Skelton, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration feedback control; Active damping; Integral force feedback control; Tensegrity structures; Vibration control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DAMPING; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SUPPORTS; TOWERS;

ACCELERATION FEEDBACK CONTROL; ACTIVE DAMPING; INTEGRAL FORCE FEEDBACK CONTROL; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES;

VIBRATION CONTROL;

EID: 8844228319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.540144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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