Vibration Control of Buildings Using Magnetorheological Damper: A New Control Algorithm

Figure 7

Input control voltage to the current driver of the MR damper: (a) passive on, (b) Lyapunov controller (A), (c) Lyapunov controller (B), (d) quasi-bang-bang controller, (e) decentralized bang-bang controller, (f) modulated homogenous friction controller, (g) maximum energy dissipation controller, (h) clipped-optimal controller, and (i) proposed controller.

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