Authors: Mohammed Bakhti, Badr Bououlid Idrisssi
This article presents an application of the first order sliding mode control in order to damp the mechanical vibrations of a flexible one-link manipulator using piezoceramic actuators. The flexible manipulator, seen as a multiple inputs multiple outputs system is decoupled using state feedback scheme. The model of the system is deduced using the finite element method, and its response to a control torque is calculated using the Lagrange equations. The state space equations are expressed in order to simplify the simulation and the controller implementation.