Dynamics and Control of Large Mechanical Structors

INTERTER是一种新型的被动机械装置，其用途已率先用于一级方程式赛车行业的悬挂系统。人们有兴趣将这种方法应用于大型系统，如高层建筑的地震减灾、空间系索、铁路悬挂。该项目的动机是控制超长长宽比钻柱的振动，这会对钻柱的机械和电子部件造成昂贵的损坏。这项研究既寻求将先进的机械控制方法应用于此类问题的一般工作，也寻求激励榜样的具体解决方案。有机会进行实验，测试由研究产生的有希望的方法。该项目属于控制工程EPSRC研究领域，与其他领域有许多共同之处：复杂的动力学、非线性效应的建模、控制解决方案的实施约束。

The inerter is a new passive mechanical device whose use has been pioneered for suspension systems in the Formula One Industry. There is interest to apply such methods to large systems e.g. earthquake damage mitigation in tall buildings, space tethers, railway suspensions. The motivation for this project is the control vibration in very long high aspect ratio drillstrings, which cause costly damage to mechanical and electronic components of the drillstring. The research seeks both a general famework to apply advances mechanical control methods to such problems and specific solutions for the motivating example. Opportunities exist for experiments testing of promising methods resulting from the research. The project falls under the control engineering EPSRC research area and has many common elements with other areas: complex dynamics, modelling of nonlinear effects, implementation constraints for control solutions.