Wang, Hsu-Lung; Eischen, Jeffrey W.; Silverberg, Larry M. On control and optimization of elastic multilink mechanisms. (English) Zbl 0921.73214 Comput. Struct. 67, No. 6, 483-502 (1998). Summary: This paper presents a method for control of nonlinear elastic multilink mechanisms. The associated control law consists of open and closed loop components. The open loop component produces the desired overall rigid body motion, while the closed loop component suppresses the elastic motion relative to rigid body motion. Both the control law and the structural dynamics are referred to an inertial coordinate system. As a consequence, the control forces and control moments are easily simulated in a dynamic finite element analysis program. A series of numerical simulations illustrate the generality of this new method. Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 74M05 Control, switches and devices (“smart materials”) in solid mechanics 74P99 Optimization problems in solid mechanics 70Q05 Control of mechanical systems 70B15 Kinematics of mechanisms and robots Keywords:open loop component; closed loop component; control law; inertial coordinate system; control forces; dynamic finite element analysis PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H.-L. Wang} et al., Comput. Struct. 67, No. 6, 483--502 (1998; Zbl 0921.73214) Full Text: DOI