Data-driven design of vibration control with active mass damper

Abstract An active mass damping tuner is one of the most commonly used active control equipment in engineering, which is used to reduce the structure vibration caused by dynamic load. It includes a mass damper system with an actuator, and the difficulty is the design of the controller. In this paper, the data-driven adaptive dynamic programming control algorithm is proposed. The adaptive dynamic programming algorithm based on data-driven is improved by introducing a new Actor-Critic-Disturbance network, which can effectively deal with the optimal controller design problem under external disturbances. The active controller is designed and verified by simulation and experiment. The active controller is designed to suppress the vibration of the one-story structure produced by Quanser Company. The simulation and experiment results show that the controller can greatly reduce the vibration response of the structure.