A bifurcation-based procedure for designing and analysing robustly stable non-linear hydraulic servo systems

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 383-394

  Kremer, G G ^a   Thompson, D F ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Hopf bifurcation; Hydraulic control systems; Non linear stability; Robustness

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY;

HOPF BIFURCATION THEORY;

HYDRAULIC SERVOMECHANISMS;

HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR; HYDRAULIC CONTROL SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC SYSTEM; SERVOMECHANISM; STABILITY;

EID: 0032458245     PISSN: 09596518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0959651981539550     Document Type: Article

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