On the Stabilization of a Flexible Beam with a Tip Mass

  • Authors:
  • Francis Conrad;Ömer Morgül

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We study the stability of a flexible beam that is clamped at one end and free at the other; a mass is also attached to the free end of the beam. To stabilize this system we apply a boundary control force at the free end of the beam. We prove that the closed-loop system is well-posed and is exponentially stable. We then analyze the spectrum of the system for a special case and prove that the spectrum determines the exponential decay rate for the considered case.