Individual blade control methodology for a rotor with dissimilar blades

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-185

  Roget, Beatrice ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VECTORS;

CONTROL METHODS;

ROTORS;

EID: 0043268211     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.48.176     Document Type: Article

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