Multidimensional System Identification and Active Vibration Control of a Piezoelectric-Based Sting System Used in Wind Tunnel

Abstract

In wind tunnel tests, the cantilever sting is usually used to support aircraft models because of its simple structure and low aerodynamic interference. However, in some special conditions, big-amplitude and low-frequency vibration would occur easily on the model not only in the pitch direction but also in the yaw direction, resulting in inaccurate data and even damage of the supporting structure. In this paper, aiming at suppressing the vibration in pitch and yaw plane, a multidimensional system identification and active vibration control system on the basis of piezoelectric actuators is established. A vibration monitoring method based on the strain-displacement transformation (SDT) matrix is proposed, which can transform strain signals into vibration displacements. The system identification based on chirp-Z transform (CZT) is applied to improve the adaptability and precision of the building process for the system model. After that, the hardware platform as well as the software control system based on the classical proportional-derivative (PD) algorithm is built. A series of experiments are carried out, and the results show the exactness of the vibration monitoring method. The system identification process is completed, and the controller is designed. Vibration control experiments verify the effectiveness of the controller, and the results indicate that vibrations in pitch and yaw directions are attenuated apparently. The spectrum power is reduced over 14.8 dB/Hz, which prove that the multidimensional identification and active vibration control system has the capability to decline vibration from different directions.

Piezoelectric adaptive active vibration suppression for wind-tunnel model support sting

“…Currently, piezoelectric active vibration control (AVC) is the research focus for wind-tunnel model support sting vibration suppression [3,4]. That is, by integrating piezoelectric stack actuators (PSAs) on the support sting, the appropriate control strategy is used to calculate the control voltage in realtime, and the PSAs are driven to apply a certain control force or torque to the support system in order to achieve the goal of eliminating the structural vibration response.…”