Targeted origin placement can be shown to complimentmathematical tools such as the image method, windowfunctions and two-sided Laplace transformation for designing awhole new class of piezoelectric sensors that can be used totailor the gain and phase portions of the sensor transfer functions independently. It can be demonstrated that by properlyapplying the boundary conditions and the method of imaging, thetargeted origin of this new class of sensor design can betraversed anywhere along the surface of the testing structure.In addition, the active sensor concept that integratesclassical control theory with piezoelectric sensors can be adapted to further advance sensor technology. The designconcept, theoretical derivations, numerical calculations andexperimental verifications of implementing this class of newsensor design to influence flexible structure control and pointsensor design methodologies are detailed.
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