Estimation of Loss Coefficients of Nonlinear Rubber Using Iterative H∞ Filter

碩士 === 中華大學 === 電機工程學系碩士班 === 94 === For automobile industry, rubber is widely used for noise isolation and vibration reduction. However, due to its distributed and nonlinear characteristics, it is hard to precisely estimate its characteristics such as the loss coefficient which is defined as the ta...

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Main Authors: Wei-Hang Tseng, 曾威航
Other Authors: Bore-Kuen Lee
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2006
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54817266152905363333
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Summary:碩士 === 中華大學 === 電機工程學系碩士班 === 94 === For automobile industry, rubber is widely used for noise isolation and vibration reduction. However, due to its distributed and nonlinear characteristics, it is hard to precisely estimate its characteristics such as the loss coefficient which is defined as the tangent of the phase delay between the fundamental components of the strain and the stress under sinusoidal driving. Moreover, even using a truncated finite-dimensional model, with rubber's nonlinearity and measurement noise, optimal estimation of the loss coefficient by using Kalman filter is not feasible in the presence of these uncertainties and non-Gaussian disturbances. Therefore, H filter is applied in this paper to robustly estimate the loss coefficient from the state-space perspective. As a state-space model for representing a sinusoidal signal has eigenvalues on the unit circle, the measured data is first processed by imposing a suitable exponential decay in order to reduce the sensitivity of the phase estimate by using the H∞ filter. Moreover, due to finite data length, an iterative H∞ filter is developed to improve the accuracy of parameter estimates. At each iteration, estimation of signal by using the H∞ filter is first performed by applying the previously estimated components of the disturbances. Then a robust estimation of the disturbances are made with respect to the measured signal which is subtracted by the estimated signal. Both simulation study and experimental test are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed iterative H∞ filter.