The Optimal Mix of Passive and Active Control in Structures
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The authors show how to redesign a structure to make it easier to control. Beginning with any active controller (say, designed to give the ideal performance), they divide this controller into two parts--one that can be synthesized simply by structure redesign (called the passive control) and one that is to be synthesized as an active controller. Given that the total closed loop response must not be changed from the ideal, the passive part of the controller is designed so as to minimize the amount of control power needed for the active part. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a globally optimum structure are given, and gradient calculations are not required. The algorithm converges to the globally optimum in a finite number of iterations.
