Balas, Gary J.Young, Peter Michael2008-06-182008-06-181999-11Balas, G. J. and Young, P. M. (1999). "Sensor Selection Via Closed-Loop Control Objectives." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 7(6), 692-705.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/37268©1999 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.The ability to stabilize a system and achieve performance objectives using active feedback control is highly dependent on the location, quality, type, and number of control actuators and sensors. One role of a control engineer is to interact with the system designer to locate, size, and determine the quality of actuators and sensors required for effective control. This paper addresses one of these issues: location of sensors based on closed-loop objectives. A systematic approach, based on H2 optimal control design techniques, is developed for sensor selection which achieves desired performance objectives and includes system constraints. This approach is applied to the selection of sensors for active vibration attenuation on the NASA Langley Mini-Mast experimental structure.en-USflexible structureslinear-quadratic controltransducersArticle