Robust individual blade control algorithm for a dissimilar rotor

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 915-923

  Roget, Beatrice ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ROTORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VIBRATION CONTROL;

DISSIMILAR ROTOR; ROTOR BLADE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0036747429     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4964     Document Type: Article

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