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In recent years, earthquakes have caused the collapse of numerous constructions and buildings, and killed thousands of people. A small scale seimic emulator is designed to regenerate seismic waves, which can be used to evaluate the performance of a scaled buidling or construction in civil engineering. The emulator is a robot device that consists of a plate movable in a planar plane, two DC servo motors with built in quadrature encoders for acutation and sensing, and a NI CompactRIO for control signal. A control strategy based on inverse dynamics and feedback is used to track the recorded seismic waves.
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Liu, G., Song, F., Tao, JF., Ma, G. (2011). A Controlled Seismic Emulator: Regenerating Earthquakes via a Robot. In: Zeng, D. (eds) Applied Informatics and Communication. ICAIC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23214-5_71
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