On the Possibility of Designing Adaptive Vibration Machinery Using Self-synchronizing Exciters

Abstract

This paper addresses the topic of possible usage of intelligent systems in vibration machinery. Intelligent oscillation control can provide possibility of changing oscillation mode throughout operation cycle that can vastly intensify a range of processes and, by doing so, significantly increase productivity. This way of reducing costs and/or increasing productivity is widely used in other industries. We focus on the subject of using the phenomenon of self-synchronization of vibration exciters to design vibration machines with the vibration mode varying throughout the operation cycle. While self-synchronising exciters has found wide usage in both scientific and industrial vibrational machines design, it should be noted that currently almost all of such machines are limited to operation modes with fixed oscillation types. Several possible dynamic layouts are provided for such devices, such as plane-parallel vibrations layout with two exiters, plane-parallel vibrations layout with three exiters and one of the possible layouts with spatial oscillations.