Dynamic analysis and optimal design of a passive and an active piezo-electrical dynamic vibration absorber

This paper is concerned with the dynamic analysis and parameter optimization of both passive and active piezo-electrical dynamic vibration absorbers that are strongly coupled with a single degree of freedom vibrating structure. The passive absorber is implemented by using an Rs∥Ls parallel shunt circuit while the active absorber is implemented by feeding back the acceleration of the structure through a second-order lowpass filter. An impedance-mobility approach is used for the electromechanical coupling analysis of both types of absorbers coupled with the structure. Using this approach it is demonstrated that the passive and active absorbers can be made exactly equivalent. A maximally flat frequency response strategy is used to find the optimal damping ratio of the passive absorber while a robust, optimal control theory is used to find that for the active absorber. It is found that the passive optimization strategy corresponds to an optimal, robust feedback control of 2 dB spillover. Simulations and experiments are conducted to support the theoretical findings.