IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Munich, Germany, 18-22 July 2005: 130 (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

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.

Dedication; Preface; Welcome Address; Group Photograph; Active Control of Structural Vibration, by Stephen J. Elliott; Control of Ship-Mounted Cranes, by Ali H. Nayfeh, Ziyad N. Masoud, Nader A. Nayfeh and Eihab Abdel-Rahman; Master-Slave Bilateral Control of Hydraulic Hand for Humanitarian Demining, by Kenzo Nonami; Excitation and Control of Micro-Vibro-Impact Mode for Ultrasonic Machining of Intractable Materials, by Vladimir Babitsky and Vladimir Astashev; Structure-Control-Optics Interaction in High Precision Telescopes, by H. Baiei M. Muller and C. Zauner; Acceleration Sensor Based on Diamagnetic Levitation, by François Barrott, Jan Sandtner and Hannes Bleuler; Active Control Strategies for Vibration Isolation, by Brad M. Beadle, Stefan Hurlebaus, Lothar Gaul and Uwe Stöbener; Design of a Laboratory Crane for Testing Control Approaches, by Dieter Bestle; Prediction of Control of Overhead Cranes Executing a Prescribed Load Trajectory, by Wojciech Blajer and Krzysztof Kolodziejczyk; Hoisting Manipulation by Modal Coupling Control for Underactuated Cranes, by Andreas Bockstedte and Edwin Kreuzer; Vibration of Resonant Gyroscopes, by Chia-Ou Chang and Chan-Shin Chou; Experimental Study of Snake-Like Locomotion of a Three-Link Mechanism, by Felix L. Chernousko, Friedrich Pfeiffer and Nikolai A. Sobolev; A Penalty Shooting Walking Machine, by Hubert Gattringer and Hartinut Bremer; Different Control Strategies for the Active Suppression of Brake Squeal, by Peter Hagedorn and Daniel Hochlenert; Modelling and Identification of Robots with Joint and Drive Flexibilities, by Toon Hardeman, Ronald Aarts and Ben Jonker; Optimal Robust Controllers for Multibody Systems, by Petko Kiriazov; Control Approach for Structured Piezo-Actuated Micro/Nano Manipulators, by Kostadin Kostadinov, Roland Kasper and Muhammed Al-Wahab Active and Semi-Active Control of Electrorheological Fluid Devices, by Andreas Kugi, Klaus Holzmann and Wolfgang Kemmetmüller; PneumaticZero-Compliance Mechanism Using Negative Stiffness, by Takeshi Mizuno, Masaya Takasaki and Masato Murashita; Control of Stick-Slip Vibrations, by Marcus Neubauer, Cord-Christian Neuber and Karl Popp; Energy Regenerative and Active Control of Electro-Dynamic Vibration Damper, by Yohji Okada and Keisuke Ozawa; Internal Velocity Feedback for Stabilisation of Inertial Actuators for Active Vibration Control, by Christoph Paulitsch, Paolo Gardonio and Stephen J. Elliott; A Control Concept for Parallel Kinematics, by Alexandra Ratering and Peter Eberhard; Motion Planning and Control of Parallel Mechanisms through Inverse Dynamics, by M. Necip Sahinkaya and Yanzhi Li; Powersaving Control of Mechanisms, by Werner Schiehlen and Nils Guse; Application of Vibration Control in Steel Industries, by Kurt Schlacher, Gernot Grabmair and Johann Holl; Active Control for Lightweight Isolation Systems, by Kazuto Seto, Masahiko Naruke, Taichi Watanabe and Hiroko Morino; Dynamics and Control of Tensegrity Systems, by Robert Skelton; New Results of the Development and Application of Robust Observers, by Dirk Söffker; Bifurcations Caused by Sampling Effects in Robotic Force Control, by Gábor Stépan, László L. Kovács and József Kövecses; Vibration Control of Elastic Joint Robots by Inverse Dynamics Models, by Michael Thümmel, Martin Otter and Johann Bals; Motion Control Design of a Molded Pantograph Mechanism with Large-Deflective Hinges, by Thomas Thümmel, Robert Huber Mikio Hone and Chikara Ishikawa; Structural Control Energy Efficiency Based on Elastic Displacement, by Kevin KE Wong; Stability Analysis of Roll Grinding System with Double Time Delay Effects, by L. Yuan, E. Keskinen and VM. Jarvenpaa; Subject Index; Author Index; List of Participants.