Robust force control for a magnetically levitated manipulator using flux density measurement

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 957-965

  Yi, J H ^a   Park, K H ^b   Kim, S H ^a   Kwak, Y K ^a   Abdelfatah, M ^c   Busch Vishniac, I ^d  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c Assiut University   (Egypt)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Force control; Hall sensors; Magnetically levitated manipulators; Robust control; Shear force testers; U shaped electromagnets

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETS; FLUXMETERS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

HALL SENSORS; SHEAR FORCE TESTERS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0030191033     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(96)00094-9     Document Type: Article

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