Active vibration control is a technique for reducing unwanted vibration by using some kind of sensor to measure the motion or force or acceleration or other parameter of thing that is vibrating and a powered actuator to generate a force to resist the unwanted motion. There is some kind of know how to reduce the unwanted action.Passive vibration control does not use any sensors or actuators and does not consume any power, however mechanical components are used to absorb unwanted vibrations such as spring blades, shock absorber, air cushion...Concerning the field of application of these techniques it is very vast that goes from the bicycle, to the scooter, to the car, to the transport vehicle in general and to the mechanical machine of transformation and manufacturing...For more details and information about this subject I suggest you to see links and attached file in topic.
- A Comparison of Passive and Active Damping Methods based on ...
Welll as the name idicated active vibration control use external force to creat a countre vibration to damp the vibration source while the passive control doesnt required any external force it just use the visco part to damp the vibration
The comparison between active and passive control is very simple, you can easily say that passive control of vibration uses it internal damping/stiffness to counter or dissipates the vibrations, while the active vibration control requires an external source of energy to do the same.
active control requires an observer to actively estimate the disturbances and uncertainties in a real-time fashion, while passive control depends totally on the feedback control to cancel the disturbances and uncertainties.
see my list of publications below for active disturbance rejection control.