Within the scope of this thesis, PLC-based control was developed and experimentally verified for sinusoidal excitation of an electrodynamic shaker and a hydraulic drive. The common control structure combines sinusoidal signal generation, feedforward control, lock-in amplitude estimation, and PI control. For the hydraulic drive, it was extended with cylinder centre-position control and frequency-dependent feedforward. Its performance was evaluated using combined frequency-amplitude profiles, constant operating points, different profile durations and directions, and repeatability tests. The results show that the common software architecture enables amplitude tracking with both drive principles, but requires the feedforward control and controller settings to be adapted to the characteristics of each system. The electrodynamic shaker provided more accurate amplitude tracking, whereas the hydraulic drive was more sensitive to frequency and to the rate and direction of operating-point changes.
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