Adaptive integral sliding mode control for active vibration absorber design

A new tuning method for active vibration absorber design is presented in this paper. A robust, adaptive control scheme based on a variable structure with an adaptive discontinuity surface is designed and simulated. Robust synthesis of an adaptive discontinuity surface based on an augmented state-space is discussed. The proposed tuning scheme has three superior features compared with the existing counterparts in that: (i) it is completely insensitive to changes in the stiffness and damping of the absorber, (ii) it is capable of suppressing cyclic vibrations over a wide range of frequencies, (iii) its real-time operation requires only one adjustable gain.