The purpose of this work is to investigate the control of the oscillations and the suppression of vibrations in damped and coupled oscillators. In this sense, we look into the potential of using a nonlinear energy sink in ...

Structural damage identification is basically a nonlinear phenomenon; however, nonlinear procedures are not used currently in practical applications due to the complexity and difficulty for implementation of such techniques. ...

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are systems composite by electrical and mechanical devices that interact by means of transducers elements, thus constituting one single and whole system. On the study of dynamic ...

This paper considers the nonlinear dynamics of an electromechanical device with a pendulum arm and a Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES) put on the point of the pendulum suspension. It is shown that the (NES) is capable of absorbing ...

Robust backstepping control of non-linear systems with derivation orders (commensurate or non-commensurate) lying at interval (0, 2) is proposed in this study. The stability and robustness properties are proved using a ...

In this paper the dynamical interactions of a double pendulum arm and an electromechanical shaker is investigated. The double pendulum is a three degree of freedom system coupled to an RLC circuit based nonlinear shaker ...

This paper considers a nonlinear dynamics of a particular structure coupled (or uncoupled) to an essentially nonlinear oscillator. We used an optimal linear control design to reduce the amplitude of oscillations and to ...

The optimal reactive dispatch problem is a nonlinear programming problem containing continuous and discrete control variables. Owing to the difficulty caused by discrete variables, this problem is usually solved assuming ...