An analysis of the effect of parallelism in the control of dynamical systems

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-168

  Akl, Selim G ^a   Cordy, Brendan J ^a   Yao, Weiguang ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Forced damped pendulum; Measurement; Parallelism; Perturbation; Real time control

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONTROL THEORY; DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PENDULUMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FORCED DAMPED PENDULUMS; PARALLELISM; PERTURBATIONS; REAL-TIME CONTROL;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844521433     PISSN: 17445760     EISSN: 17445779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445760500033432     Document Type: Article

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