Development and testing of an individual blade controller for a dissimilar rotor

AHS International 4th Decennial Specialists' Conference on Aeromechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 149-163

  Roget, Beatrice ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENT; ROTOR BLADES; ROTOR THRUST; VIBRATION REDUCTION;

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STIFFNESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VECTORS; WIND TUNNELS;

ROTORS;

EID: 2942522772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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