Modelling, Implementation and Control of a Wind Musical Instrument

Abstract This paper presents the second part of a larger project whose final objective is the study of viscous thermal losses in a wind musical instrument from a hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform. After the realization of the platform in the first part of this project, the objective of the second part, presented in this paper, is to adjust the dynamic behaviour of the numerical simulator with respect to the real dynamic behaviour of the test bench. So, in this paper, the different parts that constitute the platform are recalled, and the modelling/validation of each part are described. A control-oriented model is derived. The control architecture is designed for a robust control of the artificial mouth. The robust controller method uses CRONE system design methodology. The investigations show that the design of the artificial mouth and of its controller provides very good dynamic performances.