Phase Relations in the Synchronized Motion of Two-Pendulum System
Boris R. Andrievsky Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME RAS) 61 Bolshoy Av., St.Petersburg,199178 Russia E-mail: [email protected]; b [email protected]
Abstract actly the same frequency and 180 degrees out of phase. After external disturbance was made, the an- The synchronization phenomenon in nonlinear oscil- tiphase state was restored within a half of an hour lating system is studied by means of examination and remained indefinitely. Huygens’ synchronization of the coupled pendulums. Dependence of the phase observations have served to inspire study of sympa- shift between pendulum states on system parameters thetic rhythms of interacting nonlinear oscillators in and initial conditions is studied both analytically and many areas of science and technology. The onset of numerically. The harmonic linearization (HL) tech- synchronization and the selection of particular phase nique is applied for analytical examinations. relations have been studied in the numerous papers and monographs, see e.g. [5, 7, 4, 18, 21, 23]. Explo- ration of the synchronization phenomena is usually 1 Introduction. Resonance and focused on the study of the phase relations between synchronization motions of the coherent units. Different studies of the pair of coupled oscillators confirmed an obser- Nonlinear oscillations problem falls within the fields vation that the asynchronous mode of motion is a of nonlinear mechanics, nonlinear physics, as well as predominant one. At the same time some experi- nonlinear control theory. During the latest years the ments show that the synchronous mode can also be subject of nonlinear oscillations control has attracted observed. Therefore the problem of phase relations growing researchers’ attention among the other fields between coupled oscillators is still opened. of research where control theory methods were ap- This paper is focused on the study of phase rela- plied to physical phenomena exploration [13]. tions between coupled oscillators, excited by means The resonant property of nonlinear systems was in- of the feedback control torque. The model of 1-DOF tensively studied in the areas of charged-particle ac- pendulums coupled with a weak spring, “the Cou- celeration physics [17], plasma physics [10], celestial pled Pendulums of the Kumamoto University”, [22] mechanics [3], and automatic control. Various defi- is considered. nitions of the resonance phenomenon have been in- The Coupled Pendulums dynamics model is given in troduced to describe such properties of the nonlin- Sec. 2, where some design features of the system ear oscillations as stochastic resonance [23], chaotic are also briefly described. In Sec. 3, the phase re- resonance [9], autoresonance [17, 19], and feedback lations are studied analytically on the basis of the resonance [1, 11, 12, 14]. harmonic linearization (HL) method. The case of a The resonance property is allied to the synchroniza- single excitation is considered. It is shown that both tion one. Synchronization is usually treated as corre- synchronous and asynchronous modes can appear. sponding in time behavior of two or more processes. For the particular system the computer simulation General definitions of synchronization were proposed has been provided for checking up the analytical re- in [6, 8]. Starting with the work of Christian Huygens sults and receiving additional information on system [20], the synchronization phenomena attracted atten- behavior in Sec. 4. Some results of the computer si- tion of many researchers, see e.g. monographs [5, 24]. mulations for double-input excitation are presented In his study, C. Huygens described synchronization in Sec. 5. The summarized information is given in of the pair of pendulum clocks weakly coupled one Conclusion. with another owing to the common basement. Huy- gens had found the pendulum clocks swung in ex- 2 Coupled pendulums model 3.1 Case of the identical pendulums At first, consider the simplified case of the identical Let us consider the “Coupled Pendulums of the pendulums. Assume that J1 = J2 = J, m1 = m2 = Kumamoto University” [22]. This system consists m, l1 = l2 = l, ρ1 = ρ2 = ρ. For that case the trans- of a pair of 1-DOF pendulums, coupled with a weak fer function of the “linear part” of the closed-loop spring. A motor is attached to the first pendulum. system (2), (1) has a simple form and the harmonic The joint of the second pendulum is passive. balance equation can be easily solved. The transfer function W (s) from the input signal u to the output The system dynamics can be written as [22]: ϕ˙ 1 is as follows: