... membrane and bending components are derived using an assumed mode shape function. Studies of actuator placements, actuator induced control forces, micro-contributing components, and normalized actuation authorities of paraboloidal shells are carried out. These forces and membrane/bending components...

...Ho-Hoon Lee This paper shows that the conventional Lagrangian modeling of flexible-link robots does not fully incorporate the bending mechanism of flexible links. The conventional link deflection model allows free link elongation in addition to link deflection; the link elongation increases as link...

...Richard C. Benson, Fellow ASME In this paper, an analysis is provided for the steering of a long, warped web that is transported between two rollers. The web is modeled using the Timoshenko beam theory, which admits small amounts of elastic bending and transverse shearing. Closed-form solutions...

... uncertainty in structural parameters and shorter shaper lengths for lightly damped systems. [S0022-0434(00)02201-2] robust control flexible structures modelling errors vibration control bending Accurate control of flexible structures is an important and difficult problem and has been an active...