Flow control in resin transfer molding with switching and feedback strategies

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2000, Pages 4279-4283

  Barooah, Prabir ^a,b   Sun, Jian Qiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL AUTHORITIES; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; FEEDBACK STRATEGIES; MOLD FILLING; OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL; PREFORM PROPERTIES; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDINGS (RTM); SEQUENTIAL LOGIC;

RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; RESINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLOW CONTROL;

FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; INTEGRATED SWITCHING; SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CONTROL;

EID: 0034539533     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2000.877028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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