Implementation of an active horizontal suspension on a spray boom

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-220

  Anthonis, J ^b   Ramon, H ^a,b   De Baerdemaeker, J ^a,b  

^a ASAE ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active suspension; H( ) controller design; Identification; Spray boom; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SUSPENSION; ELECTROHYDRAULIC ACTUATORS; SPRAY BOOM;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACTUATORS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

EID: 0034163478     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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