This paper describes three different methods for generating a command profile for a lightly damped second-order system to manoeuvre it from one position to another, eliminating the residual vibrations likely to occur after the completion of the manoeuvre. The first method is a preshaped command input obtained by superimposing a cycloid onto a ramped versine+ramp function, and the second method is a reshaping of the input of any profile by convolving it with a sequence of two impulses. The third method, the 'hybrid input method', combines the first two methods to obtain a better robustness. The methods are tested on simulations, and the robustness of each is examined. The results show that the hybrid input shaping method is more robust to uncertainties in system parameters, namely the natural frequencies and damping ratio. The applicability of the methods is shown by experimental results.