IUTAM Symposium on Interaction Between Dynamics and Control in Advanced Mechanical Systems : Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium Held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 21–26 April 1996

During the last decades, applications of dynamical analysis in advanced, often nonlinear, engineering systems have been evolved in a revolutionary way. In this context one can think of applications in aerospace engineering like satellites, in naval engineering like ship motion, in mechanical engineering like rotating machinery, vehicle systems, robots and biomechanics, and in civil engineering like earthquake dynamics and offshore technology. One could continue with this list for a long time. The application of advanced dynamics in the above fields has been possible due to the use of sophisticated computational techniques employing powerful concepts of nonlinear dynamics. These concepts have been and are being developed in mathematics, mechanics and physics. It should be remarked that careful experimental studies are vitally needed to establish the real existence and observability of the predicted dynamical phenomena. The interaction between nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control in advanced engineering systems is becoming of increasing importance because of several reasons. Firstly, control strategies in nonlinear systems are used to obtain desired dynamic behaviour and improved reliability during operation, Applications include power plant rotating machinery, vehicle systems, robotics, etc. Terms like motion control, optimal control and adaptive control are used in this field of interest. Since mechanical and electronic components are often necessary to realize the desired action in practice, the engineers use the term mechatronics to indicate this field. If the desired dynamic behaviour is achieved by changing design variables (mostly called system parameters), one can think of fields like control of chaos. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Nonlinear Position-Dependent Circuits: A Language for Describing Motions of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems....Pages 1-8 Dynamics of Singularly Perturbed Nonlinear Systems with Two Degrees-of-Freedom....Pages 9-16 Control of Chaos: Impact Oscillators and Targeting....Pages 17-26 Hill’s Problem as a Dynamic Billiard....Pages 27-34 Dynamics and Optimal Control Problems for Biotechnical Systems “Man-Prosthesis”....Pages 35-42 Control of the Parametrically Excited Pendulum....Pages 43-50 On Simulation of Active Control of Structures Under Travelling Inertial Loads....Pages 51-58 Accurate Modelling of a Controlled Pneumatic Actuator with Experimental Validation....Pages 59-66 Design of Control under Mixed Constraints....Pages 67-74 New Drive for Motion Control: Survey of the Techniques of Vector-Controlled Induction Motors without Speed Sensors....Pages 75-82 Controlling Hopf Bifurcation in Mechanical Systems....Pages 83-89 Active Alignment Control of a Payload using Nonlinear, Long Stroke Actuators....Pages 91-100 A Benchmark Example to Qualify a Control Strategy for Motion Control....Pages 101-108 Controlling Chaos in a Temporally Irregular Environment and its Application to Engineering Systems....Pages 109-117 Motion Planning Strategies to Improve the Dynamic Behaviour of Controlled Mechanical Systems....Pages 119-126 Multivariable Identification of Active Magnetic Bearing Systems....Pages 127-134 Vibration Control of a Nonlinear Beam System....Pages 135-142 Homoclinic Bifurcation and Localised Torsional Buckling of Elastic Rods....Pages 143-150 Controlling Chaotic Motion of a Mechanical System with a Set-Up Elastic Stop....Pages 151-158 Output Annihilation and Optimal H 2 —Control of Plate Vibrations by Piezoelectric Actuation....Pages 159-166 Objectoriented Modelling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems....Pages 167-174 Robust Decentralized Control of Multibody Systems....Pages 175-182 Dynamic Modeling of Impedance Controlled Drives for Positioning Robots....Pages 183-190 Parameter-Identification in Nonlinear Models Using Periodic Equilibrium States....Pages 191-198 Optimization of an Actively Steered People Mover....Pages 199-206 Controlling Torsional Vibrations Through Proper Orthogonal Decomposition....Pages 207-214 Dynamics and Control of Discrete Electromechanical Systems....Pages 215-222 A Two-Level Control-Design Methodology and a Software Toolset for Mechatronics....Pages 223-230 Entrainment Control of Chaos Near Unstable Periodic Orbits....Pages 231-238 Near-Time-Optimal Feedback Control of Mechanical Systems with Fast and Slow Motions....Pages 239-246 Optimal Control of Mechanical Descriptor Systems....Pages 247-254 Adaptive/Robust Control of Chaotic Systems....Pages 255-262 Experimental Implementation of Saturation Control....Pages 263-270 Dynamics of the Opposed Pile Driver....Pages 271-278 The Analysis and Stability of Piecewise Linear Dynamical Systems....Pages 279-286 Grasping Optimization and Control....Pages 287-302 Experimental Investigation of Random Vibration Control Through Dry Friction....Pages 303-312 Some Developments in Computational Techniques in Modeling Advanced Mechanical Systems....Pages 313-320 Optimisation of Non-Linear Inter-Vehicle Active Suspension Control Laws Applied to Railway Trains.....Pages 321-328 Actuator and Sensor Location for Structural Identification and Control....Pages 329-336 Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Nonlinear Dynamics in an Elastic System with Initial Curvature....Pages 337-344 Control Concepts for Lateral Motion of Road Vehicles in Convoy....Pages 345-354 Control of Nonlinear Beam Vibrations by Multiple Piezoelectric Layers....Pages 355-362 Decoupling in Automotive Active Suspension System Design....Pages 363-374 Dynamics of a Single-Axle Steered Bogie....Pages 375-382 Control Design for a Pick-and-Place Mechanism....Pages 383-390 Dynamics of Digitally Controlled Machines....Pages 391-398 Load Adaption of a Linear Maglev Guide for Machine Tools....Pages 399-406 Active Decoupling of Dynamic Structure-Foundation Interactions....Pages 407-416 Universal Bifurcations in Impact Oscillators....Pages 417-424 Model-Based Low-Order Control Design for Mechanical Servo-Systems....Pages 425-432 Back Matter....Pages 433-448 This volume contains 51 contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Interaction between Dynamics and Control in Advanced Mechanical Systems. The Symposium brought together scientists active in various fields of both dynamics and control, and stimulated the interaction of the two with respect to advanced engineering applications. The papers presented address a wide variety of applications ranging from vehicle systems to mechatronic systems. Furthermore, the relevance of more fundamental areas such as control of chaos and optimal control is illuminated. This volume presents a valuable collection of papers and promotes further theoretical and applied investigations with respect to the interaction of dynamics and control. The volume will be of assistance to scientists and engineers working in the fields of dynamics and control.