• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.442-453
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• 2016

A significant source of vibration in helicopters is the main rotor system, and it is a technical challenge to reduce the vibration in order to ensure the comfort of crew and passengers. Several types of passive devices have been applied to conventional helicopters in order to reduce the vibration. In recent years, helicopter manufacturers have increasingly adopted active vibration control systems (AVCSs) due to their superior performance with lower weight compared with passive devices. AVCSs can also maintain their performance over aircraft configuration and flight condition changes. As part of the development of AVCS software for light civil helicopter (LCH) applications, a test bench is constructed and vibration control tests and simulations are performed in this study. The test bench, which represents the airframe, is excited using a pair of counter rotating force generators (CRFGs) and a multiple input single output (MISO) AVCS that consists of three accelerometer sensors and a pair of CRFGs; a filtered-x least mean square (LMS) algorithm is applied for the vibration reduction. First, the vibration control tests are performed with uniform sensor weights; then, the change in the control performance according to changes in the sensor weight is investigated and compared with the simulation results. It is found that the vibration control performance can be tuned through adjusting the weights of the three sensors, even if only one actuator is used.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.443-453
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• 2020

대표적인 기동 헬리콥터인 UH-60A의 기체 진동응답을 감소시키고자 능동 진동 제어 시스템(Active Vibration Control System, AVCS)을 이용한 시뮬레이션 연구를 수행하였다. 로터 진동 하중, 기체 구조 동역학 모델링, 진동응답 해석 및 진동 제어 시뮬레이션 연구를 수행하기 위하여 DYMORE II, NDARC, MSC.NASTRAN 및 MATLAB Simulink 등의 다양한 해석, 설계 및 제어 프로그램들을 함께 사용하였다. 5개의 CRFG와 7개의 가속도계로 이루어진 Multi Input Multi Output(MIMO) 모델을 AVCS 시뮬레이션 연구에 이용하였다. 본 시뮬레이션 연구를 통하여 진동이 극심한 158knots의 비행속도에서 UH-60A의 주요 위치(조종석, 로터와 기체의 접합부, 중앙 승객실 및 후방 승객실) 위치에서 AVCS의 사용으로 인하여 4/rev 기체 진동응답이 25.14~96.05%만큼 감소될 수 있었다.