Abstract Many in the structural dynamics community are currently researching a range of multiple-input/multiple-output problems and largely rely on commercially-available closed-loop controllers to execute their experiments. Generally, these commercially-available control systems are robust and prove adequate for a wide variety of testing. However, with the development of new techniques in this field, researchers will want to exercise these new techniques in laboratory tests. For example, modifying the control or input estimation method can have benefits to the accuracy of control, or provide higher response for a given input. Modification of the control methods is not typically possible in commercially-available control systems, therefore it is desirable to have some methodology available which allows researchers to synthesize input signals for multiple-input/multiple-output experiments. Here, methods for synthesizing multiply-correlated time histories based on desired cross spectral densities are demonstrated and then explored to understand effects of various parameters on the resulting signals, their statistics, and their relation to the specified cross spectral densities. This paper aims to provide researchers with a simple, step-by-step process which can be implemented to generate input signals for open-loop multiple-input/multiple-output experiments.


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