Swashplateless helicopter rotor with trailing-edge flaps for flight and vibration control

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 346-352

  Shen, Jinwei ^a,d   Yang, Mao ^b   Chopra, Inderjit ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VIBRATION CONTROL;

CONTROL FUNCTIONS; FLAP DEFLECTION; FLIGHT CONTROL; SWASHPLATELESS ROTOR;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 33646397878     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.14634     Document Type: Article

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