IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures

During the last decades, the growth of micro-electronics has reduced the cost of computing power to a level acceptable to industry and has made possible sophisticated control strategies suitable for many applications. Vibration c- trol is applied to all kinds of engineering systems to obtain the desired dynamic behavior, improved accuracy and increased reliability during operation. In this context, one can think of applications related to the control of structures' vib- tion isolation, control of vehicle dynamics, noise control, control of machines and mechanisms and control of ?uid-structure-interaction. One could continue with this list for a long time. Research in the ?eld of vibration control is extremely comprehensive. Pr- lems that are typical for vibration control of nonlinear mechanisms and str- tures arise in the ?elds of modeling systems in such a way that the model is suitable for control design, to choose appropriate actuator and sensor locations and to select the actuators and sensors. Theobjective of the Symposium was to present anddiscuss methodsthat contribute to thesolution of such problems and to demonstrate the state of the art inthe ?eld shown by typical examples. The intention was to evaluate the limits of performance that can beachievedby controlling the dynamics, and to point out gaps in present research and give links for areas offuture research.Mainly, it brought together leading experts from quite different areas presenting theirpoints of view.

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Active Control of Structural Vibration.- Control of Ship-Mounted Cranes.- Master-Slave Bilateral Control of Hydraulic Hand for Humanitarian Demining.- Excitation and Control of Microvibro-Impact Mode for Ultrasonic Machining of Intractable Materials.- Structure-Control-Optics Interaction in High Precision Telescopes.- Acceleration Sensor Based on Diamagnetic Levitation.- Active Control Strategies for Vibration Isolation.- Design of a Laboratory Crane for Testing Control Approaches.- Prediction of Control of Overhead Cranes Executing a Prescribed Load Trajectory.- Hoisting Manipulation by Modal Coupling Control for Underactuated Cranes.- Vibration of Resonant Gyroscopes.- Experimental Study of Snake-Like Locomotion of a Three-Link Mechanism.- A Penalty Shooting Walking Machine.- Different Control Strategies for the Active Suppression of Brake Squeal.- Modelling and Identification of Robots with Joint and Drive Flexibilities.- Optimal Robust Controllers for Multibody Systems.- Control Approach for Structured Piezo-Actuated Micro/Nano Manipulators.- Active and Semi-Active Control of Electrorheological Fluid Devices.- Pneumatic Zero-Compliance Mechanism Using Negative Stiffness.- Control of Stick-Slip Vibrations.- Energy Regenerative and Active Control of Electro-Dynamic Vibration Damper.- Internal Velocity Feedback for Stabilisation of Inertial Actuators for Active Vibration Control.- A Control Concept for Parallel Kinematics.- Motion Planning and Control of Parallel Mechanisms Through Inverse Dynamics.- Powersaving Control of Mechanisms.- Application of Vibration Control in Steel Industries.- Active Control for Lightweight Isolation Systems.- Dynamics and Control of Tensegrity Systems.- New Results of the Development and Application of Robust Observers.- Bifurcations Caused by Sampling Effects in Robotic Force Control.- Vibration Control of Elastic Joint Robots by Inverse Dynamics Models.- Motion Control Design of A Molded Pantograph Mechanism with Large Deflective Hinges.- Structural Control Energy Efficiency Based on Elastic Displacement.- Stability Analysis of Roll Grinding System with Double Time Delay Effects.