The course offers the opportunity to combine skills from different courses and apply them to a practical task, thermby deepening the understanding of the underlying theoretical fundametals.
Students work in groups to complete a given task, e.g. active sound absorption using a piezoelectrially actuated panel.
The laboratory is organized as a project work carried out largely independently by the students in small groups.
The task is handed out in a kick-off meeting, and an introductory lecture is offered. During the semester, the results of the work are presented and discussed in 3 consecutive workshops (model building, model validation, control).
The necessary previous knowledge from system dynamics, vibration engineering, modal analysis, FE-methods and control engineering is applied practically in this laboratory work. The associated challenges (realistic model creation, adaptation and controller design for it, handling of measurement and real-time control hardware and software) are solved and thus significant practical experience is gained.
