Control of dynamic keyhole welding process

Automatica

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 876-884

  Zhang, Y M ^a   Liu, Y C ^a  

^a Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

Author keywords

GTAW; Interval model; Intervals; Keyhole; Manufacturing; PAW; Penetration; Predictive control; Robust control; Welding

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASMA WELDING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INTERVAL MODEL; KEYHOLE SUSTAINING CURRENTS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; QUASI-KEYHOLE PROCESS;

WELDS;

EID: 33947715394     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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