
Active Mass Damper
Control vibrations in tall structures
The Quanser Active Mass Damper (AMD) is a bench-scale model of a tall building equipped with an active damper. It is ideal for studying control techniques used to actively suppress vibrations in tall buildings. The AMD experiment is available in three different configurations: 1-floor AMD, 2-floor AMD with a single active cart, and 2-floor AMD with two active carts.
Learn More- High-quality DC servo motor and gearbox
- High-resolution optical encoders for precise cart position measurements
- Variable cart load mass
- Precise, stiff and heavy-duty machined components
- Open architecture design, allowing users to design their own controller
- PV control
- Pole location
- State-space representation
- Transfer function representation
- State-feedback control
- Control parameter tuning
- Switching-mode control
The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
For Simulink
- QUARC Essentials for MATLAB®/Simulink®
- Quanser VoltPAQ-X1 linear voltage amplifier
- One of the following DAQ devices:
- Quanser Q2-USB
- Quanser Q8-USB
- Quanser QPIDe
Product Details
Dimensions (L x W x H) | 32 cm x 11 cm x 63 cm |
Total mass | 2.83 kg |
Flexible structure height | 50 cm |
Cart rack height | 13 cm |
Flexible structure natural frequency | 1.57 Hz |
Flexible structire linear stiffness | 173 N/m |
Cart travel | ± 9.5 cm |
Cart encoder resolution | 4096 counts/rev |
Accelerometer sensitivity | 1.0 g/V |