Passive mechanical synthesis and control with the inerter Seminar
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Date:
- 30 May 2012
- Venue:
- Building 13 Room 3021
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dina Shona Laila at d.laila@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Electro-Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
This talk will discuss some recent work on the synthesis of general passive mechanical impedances and its application to problems of mechanical control. The need for a new modelling element (the inerter) will be explained and its mechanical construction discussed. The recent deployment of the inerter in Formula One racing cars will be described. Recent results on restricted complexity synthesis will be presented.
Speaker information
Dr Michael Chen , Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong. Michael Chen graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and from Cambridge University with a Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, and a member of the IEEE. His research interests include passive network synthesis, vehicle suspensions, complex networks, and statistical mechanics.