Health monitoring of a helicopter rotor in forward flight using fuzzy logic

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2373-2381

  Ganguli, Ranjan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITION MONITORING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUZZY SETS; MOISTURE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AEROELASTIC MODEL; BLADE BENDING; FUZZY LOGIC SYSTEM; TORSION RESPONSE;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0036935108     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1588     Document Type: Article

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