Real-time vibration suppression

The use of parallel processing techniques in obtaining real-time active damping of flexible beam structures is demonstrated using simulation. It is found that the overall computing can be split functionally into smaller sub-tasks which can be processed on tailor made architectures so that communication aspects are optimised. This flexibility in computer hardware configuration design is felt to be imperative if the control engineer is to successfully apply parallel techniques to a wide class of problems. The theoretical results presented need however to be implemented on a real system to assess their practical viability