Abstract: This paper describes the design of closed-loop control laws for servomechanisms with one dominant flexible mode. An input shaping technique is employed to alter the rigid body phase-plane ...

Abstract: Input shaping has been shown to yield good performance in the control of flexible structures while being insensitive to modeling errors. However, previous studies do not take into account the ...

Abstract: Web-winding systems, such as tape drives, are often modeled as linear and time-invariant, but at least two nonlinearities are common in these systems. First, the reel radii and moments of ...

Abstract: The standard region 2 control scheme for a variable-speed wind turbine, τc=Kω2, has several shortcomings that can result in significant power loss. The first of these is that there is no ...