The application of control techniques to offshore wind turbines has the potential to
significantly improve the structural response, and thus reliability, of these systems. Passive …

A methodology for the design of active car suspension systems is presented. The goal is to
minimize vertical car body acceleration, for passenger comfort, and to avoid hitting …

A decentralized control method with improved robustness and design flexibility is proposed
for reducing vibrations of seismically excited building structures. In a previous study, a …

This paper presents a model predictive control formulation that incorporates trajectory
sensitivity to improve the robustness of the conventional model predictive control strategy. A …

This paper gives a method to compute a controller that places closed-loop poles in a
specified region, has an order equal to the number of plant control inputs and, under some …

Active and semi-active control devices, eg, active mass dampers and dampers with
controllable dam**, respectively, have been studied to enhance the performance of …

PURDUE UNIVERSITY Page 1 Graduate School ETD Form 9 (Revised 12/07) PURDUE
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A direct robust digital design for a benchmark problem in controlling buildings is presented.
The structure considered is a scale model of a 3-story building employing an active mass …