Active platform stabilization with a 6D seismometer

Amit Singh Ubhi*, Leonid Prokhorov, Sam Cooper, Chiara Di Fronzo, John Bryant, David Hoyland, Alexandra Mitchell, Jesse Van Dongen, Conor Mow-Lowry, Alan Cumming, Giles Hammond, Denis Martynov

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Abstract

We demonstrate the control scheme of an active platform with a six degree of freedom (6D) seismometer. The inertial sensor simultaneously measures translational and tilt degrees of freedom of the platform and does not require any additional sensors for the stabilization. We show that a feedforward cancelation scheme can efficiently decouple tilt-to-horizontal coupling of the seismometer in the digital control scheme. We stabilize the platform in the frequency band from 250 mHz up to 10 Hz in the translational (X, Y) degrees of freedom and achieve a suppression factor of 100 around 1 Hz. Further suppression of ground vibrations was limited by the non-linear response of the piezo actuators of the platform and by its limited range (5 μm). In this paper, we discuss the 6D seismometer, its control scheme, and the limitations of the test bed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number174101
Pages (from-to)1-6
Number of pages6
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume121
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Rich Mittleman for his valuable internal review and also members of the LIGO SWG groups for useful discussions. The authors acknowledge the support of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, STFC 2018 Equipment Call ST/S002154/1, STFC “Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham” under Grant No. ST/S000305/1, and STFC QTFP “Quantum-enhanced interferometry for new physics” under Grant No. ST/T006609/1. A.S.U. is supported by STFC studentship Nos. 2117289 and 2116965. A.M. contributed in the design of the coil magnet actuation scheme for damping of the test mass. A.M., J.V.D., and C.M.L. are funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 865816).

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Funding

We thank Rich Mittleman for his valuable internal review and also members of the LIGO SWG groups for useful discussions. The authors acknowledge the support of the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, STFC 2018 Equipment Call ST/S002154/1, STFC “Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham” under Grant No. ST/S000305/1, and STFC QTFP “Quantum-enhanced interferometry for new physics” under Grant No. ST/T006609/1. A.S.U. is supported by STFC studentship Nos. 2117289 and 2116965. A.M. contributed in the design of the coil magnet actuation scheme for damping of the test mass. A.M., J.V.D., and C.M.L. are funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 865816).

FundersFunder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme865816
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/S002154/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council
European Research Council
University of Birmingham2116965, ST/T006609/1, 2117289, ST/S000305/1
University of Birmingham

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