Active vibration control using noncollocated piezoelectric film sensor/actuator

In order to overcome the difficulties of multimodal active vibration damping of the flexible thin structure using simultaneous piezoelectric sensing and actuation, an noncollocated vibration control method, in which piezoelectric film sensors and actuators were shaped using different shaping functions, was proposed in this paper. At first, fundamental equations were summarized and vibration responses of the beam were derived based on the modal coordinate systems. Then, it was shown that by considering phase characteristics of the controller in conjunctions with the polarity of the piezofims in high order frequencies, multimodal control will be implemented both theoretically and experimentally.