Journal of System Design and Dynamics
Online ISSN : 1881-3046
ISSN-L : 1881-3046
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Study on Active Vibration Control for High-Speed Elevators
Naoaki NOGUCHIAtsushi ARAKAWAKoichi MIYATATakuya YOSHIMURASeiichi SHIN
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2011 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 164-179

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When elevators travel at high speed, horizontal vibrations of the car tend to occur due to guide rail deformations, deteriorating ride comfort. Therefore, several active control systems have been developed to reduce these vibrations. These systems consist of six actuators, which independently move the guide rollers. To reduce costs and installation time, it is necessary to develop a system with a minimum number of actuators and a simplified controller. We developed a system with only three actuators. The controller incorporates an H-infinity control design method for maintaining stability of the system when there is a change in load. Furthermore, from a practical point of view, it is important to reduce the order of the controller so that the time for on-site parameter tuning can be reduced. Therefore, we reduced the H-infinity controller to a P controller. We demonstrated that the maximum amplitude of vibrations of a car with active control system can be reduced to almost half the vibration amplitude without control.

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