Adaptive control of full penetration gas tungsten arc welding

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 394-403

  Zhang, Yu M ^a   Kovacevic, Radovan ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TUNGSTEN; WELDS;

ADAPTIVE GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE DECOUPLING CONTROL; FULL PENETRATION PROCESS; GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING;

ELECTRIC ARC WELDING;

EID: 0030189931     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.508887     Document Type: Article

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