Switching Vibration Control of Passive and Active Mass Damper

In this paper, we propose switching vibration control method based on kinetic energy of vibration system; switching between passive mass damper and active mass damper. The vibration control device is dual construction, that is, there are two additive masses, one mass works as passive damper and the other mass works as active mass damper. Numerical simulations and experimental results show that the proposed switching control has better performance than full time passive mass damper and active mass damper.