Title : 
A hinged network of Euler-Bernoulli beams under feedback controls
         
        
            Author : 
Zhang, Kuiting ; Xu, Genqi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Autom., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we design boundary feedback controllers at the interior node to stabilize a star-shaped network of Euler-Bernoulli beams. The beams are hinged each other, that is, the displacements of the structure are continuous but the rotations of the beams are not continuous. The well-posed-ness of the closed loop system is proved by the semigroup theory. We show that the system is asymptotically stable if we impose a shear control on the common vertex. Finally, we derive the exponential stability of the system.
         
        
            Keywords : 
asymptotic stability; closed loop systems; distributed control; feedback; group theory; Euler-Bernoulli beam; asymptotic stability; boundary feedback controller; closed loop system; hinged network; semigroup theory; shear control; star shaped network; Adaptive control; Asymptotic stability; Closed loop systems; Differential equations; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Equations; Stability criteria;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics (ISSCAA), 2010 3rd International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Harbin
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-6043-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-7505-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISSCAA.2010.5632910