Design of an improved shape memory alloy actuator for rotor blade tracking

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4701, Issue , 2002, Pages 244-266

  Singh, Kiran ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Helicopter; Shape memory alloy; Smart materials; Tracking tab

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; POSITION CONTROL; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ROTOR BLADE TRACKING;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 0036030442     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.474663     Document Type: Article

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