Chattering alleviation in vibration control of smart beam structures using piezofilm actuators: Experimental verification

This paper presents a new discrete-time sliding mode controller to alleviate undesirable chattering in vibration control of a flexible beam structure. A smart beam featuring a piezoelectric film is devised and its governing equation of motion is derived. A discrete-time sliding mode controller which consists of discontinuous part and equivalent part is then designed by considering the separation principle. By doing this, undesirable chattering of the beam structure can be attenuated in the settled phase. The proposed controller is experimentally realized, and both transient and forced vibration control responses are evaluated in time domain. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.