Magnetic levitation by chaotic oscillation: A new method

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 3475-3481

  Kaplan, B Z ^a,b   Horen, Y ^c   Cohen, G ^d   Hellerman, Y ^b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NEGEV ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

^d PASSAVE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chaos; Magnetic levitation; Strange attractor; Switching mode control

Indexed keywords

SWITCHING-MODE CONTROL;

CHAOS THEORY; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC LEVITATION;

EID: 0036757582     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802707     Document Type: Article

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