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Title: Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports
This paper explores the possibility to construct two- terminal mechanical devices (one-ports) which are lossless and adjustable. To be lossless, the device must be passive (i.e. not requiring a power supply) and non-dissipative. To be adjustable, a parameter of the device should be freely variable in real time as a control input. For the simplest lossless one ports, the spring and inerter, the question is whether the stiffness and inertance may be varied freely in a lossless manner. We will show that the typical laws which have been proposed for adjustable springs and inerters are necessarily active and that it is not straightforward to modify them to achieve losslessness, or indeed passivity. By means of a physical construction using a lever with moveable fulcrum we will derive device laws for adjustable springs and inerters which satisfy a formal definition of losslessness. We further provide a construction method which does not require a power supply for physically realisable translational and rotary springs and inerters. The analogous questions for lossless adjustable electrical devices are examined.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1807664 1665031 1839441
PAR ID:
10106351
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
ISSN:
0018-9286
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 1
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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