Reduced order controllers for an anisotropic composite plate with smart actuation and sensing

We present results for the recently developed balanced proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) model reduction algorithm applied to an anisotropic composite plate with piezoceramic actuators and sensors. Though balanced POD has been applied to a variety of problems, to the authors´ knowledge it has not yet been demonstrated on a structural problem with this type of sensing and actuation, which is modeled with unbounded input and output operators in the distributed parameter system setting. The computed reduced order model is used to construct a reduced order feedback controller for the system.