Active Control of Structural Vibration -- Control of Ship-Mounted Cranes -- Master-Slave Bilateral Control of Hydraulic Hand for Humanitarian Demining -- Excitation and Control of Microvibro-Impact Mode for Ultrasonic Machining of Intractable Materials -- Structure-Control-Optics Interaction in High Precision Telescopes -- Acceleration Sensor Based on Diamagnetic Levitation -- Active Control Strategies for Vibration Isolation -- Design of a Laboratory Crane for Testing Control Approaches -- Prediction of Control of Overhead Cranes Executing a Prescribed Load Trajectory -- Hoisting Manipulation by Modal Coupling Control for Underactuated Cranes -- Vibration of Resonant Gyroscopes -- Experimental Study of Snake-Like Locomotion of a Three-Link Mechanism -- A Penalty Shooting Walking Machine -- Different Control Strategies for the Active Suppression of Brake Squeal -- Modelling and Identification of Robots with Joint and Drive Flexibilities -- Optimal Robust Controllers for Multibody Systems -- Control Approach for Structured Piezo-Actuated Micro/Nano Manipulators -- Active and Semi-Active Control of Electrorheological Fluid Devices -- Pneumatic Zero-Compliance Mechanism Using Negative Stiffness -- Control of Stick-Slip Vibrations -- Energy Regenerative and Active Control of Electro-Dynamic Vibration Damper -- Internal Velocity Feedback for Stabilisation of Inertial Actuators for Active Vibration Control -- A Control Concept for Parallel Kinematics -- Motion Planning and Control of Parallel Mechanisms Through Inverse Dynamics -- Powersaving Control of Mechanisms -- Application of Vibration Control in Steel Industries -- Active Control for Lightweight Isolation Systems -- Dynamics and Control of Tensegrity Systems -- New Results of the Development and Application of Robust Observers -- Bifurcations Caused by Sampling Effects in Robotic Force Control -- Vibration Control of Elastic Joint Robots by Inverse Dynamics Models -- Motion Control Design of A Molded Pantograph Mechanism with Large Deflective Hinges -- Structural Control Energy Efficiency Based on Elastic Displacement -- Stability Analysis of Roll Grinding System with Double Time Delay Effects.

This book contains papers presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanism and Structures, held in Munich. Vibration control is applied to all kinds of engineering systems to obtain desired dynamic behaviour, improved accuracy and increased reliability during operation. Research in the field of vibration control is extremely comprehensive. On the one hand the mechanical system has to be modeled with modern techniques and on the other hand the corresponding control concepts have to be added to the system itself. The selection of modeling features together with modern control algorithms decides significantly on the performance of vibration control. The latest developments related to control of structures, vibration isolation, control of vehicle dynamics, noise control, control of mechanisms and fluid-structure-interaction control is covered by this volume. Each author is a leading scientist in his field, which lends the book authority in the topics treated. This book is intended to be used by researchers, engineers and advanced students interested in the field of vibration control.