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Smart Structures and Systems
  Volume 36, Number 1, July 2025 , pages 39-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sss.2025.36.1.039
 


Adaptive time-delay compensation method combined with sliding mode control: Theory and verification
Yunhai Zeng, Huimeng Zhou, Yucai Chen, Yu Guo, Ping Tan and Zhen Wang

 
Abstract
    Delay compensation presents a key component to ensure an accurate and robust real-time hybrid test (RTHT). As RTHT continues to evolve, the scale and degrees of freedom of studied structures increase, requiring greater attention to the responses of higher-order modes. High-frequency components in structural responses at the boundaries of substructures must also be accurately imposed onto the specimen. Robust delay compensation for high-frequency signals loading in RTHT needs to be explored. This paper proposes an adaptive time delay compensation based discrete model strategy combined with sliding mode control method (ADM-SMC). In this method, combining with the robust sliding mode control (SMC), the least squares method is used to update the parameters of the discrete model of the SMC-loading system in real time, which provides a robust compensation method for the wide-band and high-frequency excitation loading. A delay compensation test and a RTHT were conducted to verify the feasibility of this method. The results indicate that the proposed method can compensate varying time delay precisely with robustness for different high-frequency excitation loading.
 
Key Words
    adaptive delay compensation; high-frequency signal; real-time hybrid testing; sliding mode control
 
Address
(1) Yunhai Zeng, Yucai Chen, Ping Tan:
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China;
(2) Huimeng Zhou:
Earthquake Engineering Research & Test Center, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China;
(3) Yu Guo, Zhen Wang:
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.
 

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