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Experimental analysis of an active vibration control system for gearboxes

Yuan H Guan1, W Steve Shepard Jr1, Teik C Lim2,3 and Mingfeng Li2

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An internal active vibration control system for suppressing gearbox housing vibrations due to gear transmission error excitation is developed and evaluated experimentally. The approach is based on an active shaft transverse vibration control concept that resides within the gearbox. The system contains a piezoelectric stack actuator for applying control forces to the shaft via a secondary rolling element bearing. An enhanced filtered-x least mean squares control algorithm with frequency estimation capability is employed to generate the appropriate actuation signal. The experimental results show up to about 20 dB reduction in the vibration levels of the first two mesh harmonics at the control positions on the housing structure for a range of operating speeds. The experimental studies also indicate that, under certain narrow operating conditions, the vibrations at some non-control positions may be amplified slightly due possibly to the effect of unmodeled dynamics. In spite of this limitation, the proposed active vibration control approach is quite promising for reducing gear vibration and ultimately gear noise.


PACS

45.80.+r Control of mechanical systems

07.07.Tw Servo and control equipment; robots

02.70.Rr General statistical methods

07.10.Fq Vibration isolation

43.50.+y Noise: its effects and control

Subjects

Computational physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Dates

Issue 5 (October 2004)

Received 22 January 2004, in final form 4 June 2004

Published 16 September 2004



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