Intelligent active vibration control in an isolation platform

This paper presents the study on the vibration attenuation in an isolated platform by combining multi-layer perception (MLP) neural network, radial basis function (RBF) neural network, cerebella model articulation controller (CMAC) neural network and fuzzy neural networks (FNN) with error back propagation algorithm to control voice coil actuator. Usually, the methods in past time to control vibration were mainly designed by using mathematical models, which must be nearly close to the actual plant models. As regards to these utilized control methods, the most important advantage of them are that they have capability of self tuning the parameters of controllers and could adapt the changes of the environments. The performance of attenuation and control effectiveness can be evaluated by placing the accelerator to measure the amplitude at the center of the isolated platform. The experimental results in this study show that the control methods as adopted could greatly attenuate the vibration of resonance and external disturbance in an isolation platform.