Discrete direct adaptive ELM controller for seismically excited non-linear base-isolated buildings

Abstract

Structures with fixed-base will produce high accelerations and inter-storey drifts and move laterally during earthquake. The presence of base isolation devices between ground and the structure, reduces the structural vibrations. To maintain the seismic response of structures within safety, service and comfort limits, the combination of base isolators and feedback controllers have been proposed in recent years. This paper proposes a discrete direct adaptive extreme learning machine (ELM) controller for the active control of non linear base isolated building with hysteretic isolation system. The controller is constructed based on a single hidden layer feed forward network and the parameters of the network are adapted using extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithm. In this work, different from the original ELM algorithm the output weights of the network are updated using Lyapunov stability approach, to guarantee the stability of the structure. The performance of the proposed controller is verified on a non-linear three dimensional benchmark base-isolated structure by exciting the structure with three earthquake samples. The result shows that the proposed controller is effective in reducing the seismic responses of the isolation members as well as the superstructure.