One of the principal objectives of vibration isolation technology is to isolate sensitive equipment from a vibrating structure or to isolate the structure from an uncertain exogenous disturbance source. In this paper, a dynamic observer-based active isolator is proposed that guarantees closed-loop asymptotic stabil ity and disturbance decoupling between the vibrating structure and isolated structure. The proposed active isolator is applied to a uniaxial vibrational system and compared to an optimal linear-quadratic design.
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