CONTROL LABORATORY Saturday, 03/21/2020

System Identification of a Mass-Spring-Damper System

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ME Department

1. Ahmad Nedal 0160328 2. Mahmoud Elayyan

3. Modather Shandak 0162483 4. Najib Said 0161545

Item Grade Remarks

Abstract (20pts)

Introduction
(20pts)

Results (20pts)

Discussions
(20pts)

Conclusions
(10pts)

References (10pts)

Total

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Abstract

We will investigate the effects of varying the parameters of a physical spring mass
damper system, and see how its behavior is different from the lumped parameter model.

Introduction

System identification or reverse engineering is one of the most important engineering

applications. Black boxes systems may be analyzed and inside information generated to
make their understanding possible. The field of system identification uses statistical
methods to build mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data.
System identification also includes the optimal design of experiments for efficiently
generating informative data for fitting such models as well as model reduction.

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Results
This is the equation for the response theoretically.

I have the theoretical equation but I don't have that experimental data, so I can't compare the
two curves using Excel or matlab.

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Discussions

In this experiment we are trying to study the mass-spring-damper system (second order
underdamped response) and determine the damped natural frequency of the system
using the response graph and determine the damping ratio of the system using the log
decrement method finally determine the spring stiffness, damping constant, and mass of
the system. Experimentally if the over shoot of the system increases the log decrement
increases and the damping ratio decreases.

In this experiment a PID controller was used to control a mass spring damper system,
the damping ration was determined using the log decrement method and the responses
from the graph to determine natural frequency.

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Conclusions

We couldn't find the values of mass, spring stiffness and damping constant using a
second order system equation and the equation of the system because we dont have
enough tests for the experiment.

But we found the natural frequency of the system and the damping ratio using the only
response graph we have.

System type and identification were unable to be known after giving a step input
because we couldn't find the equivalent mass and equivalent spring stiffness.

In first method the (Log decrement method) We couldn't find the spring stiffness or the
damping constant because we couldn't find the equivalent mass because we don't have
enough data.

In the second method the (Using a performance index) We couldn't use this method In
Excel or matlab because we don't have the experimental results data, And we couldn't
find the theoretical value because of we don't have the value of the mass

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References

[1] www.rose-hulman.edu/~cornwell/courses/em406/labs/EM406_Lab2_system%20ID_2006.pdf

[2] Vibration Text, Inman

[3] Control dynamic system course notebook

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