%0 Journal Article %T System identification and active vibration control of a flexible structure %A Abreu %A Gustavo Luiz C. M. de %A Concei£¿£¿o %A Sanderson M. da %A Lopes Jr. %A Vicente %A Brennan %A Michael John %A Alves %A Marco Tš²lio Santana %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1678-58782012000500007 %X the aim of this paper is to illustrate the active control of vibration of a flexible structure using a model-based digital controller. the state-space model of the system is derived using a system identification technique known as the observer/kalman filter identification (okid) method together with eigensystem realization algorithm (era). based on the measured response of the structure to a random input, an explicit state-space model of the equivalent linear system is determined. the model is used in a linear quadratic regulator (lqr) to control the first two modes of vibration of a cantilever beam using a piezoelectric actuator/sensor pair. experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. %K observer [kalman filter identification (okid)] %K eigensystem realization algorithm (era) %K optimal vibration control %K piezoelectric smart structures. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-58782012000500007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en