Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 948126, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/948126
Research Article

Design and Synchronization of Master-Slave Electronic Horizontal Platform System

Hang-Hong Kuo,1 Teh-Lu Liao,1 and Jun-Juh Yan2

1Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
2Department of Computer and Communication, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan

Received 22 October 2011; Accepted 16 December 2011

Academic Editor: Mingshu Peng

Copyright © 2012 Hang-Hong Kuo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Horizontal platform system (HPS) is one of the mechanical systems with rich behavior and has extensively been applied in offshore and earthquake engineering. A corresponding electronic HPS is proposed in this paper to reduce the research cost and time when studying dynamics of the mechanical HPS. Furthermore, an output feedback controller is proposed for global synchronization between coupled electronic HPS systems and its stability condition is also derived by employing the Lyapunov stability theory. The experimental simulations verify the dynamics of the proposed electronic HPS and the synchronization effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.