Feedback design for robust tracking and robust stiffness in flight control actuators using a modified QFT technique

International Journal of Control

Volumn 72, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1480-1497

  Thompson, David F ^a   Pruyn, John S ^a   Shukla, Amit ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC SERVOMECHANISMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT CONTROL ACTUATORS; QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK THEORY (QFT);

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 0033360324     PISSN: 00207179     EISSN: 13665820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002071799220128     Document Type: Article

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