Autonomous sensing and control of wing stall using a smart plasma slat

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 516-527

  Patel, Mehul P ^a,c,d   Sowie, Zak H ^a,e   Corke, Thomas C ^b,d,f   He, Chuan ^b,f  

^a Orbital Research Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c Aerodynamics Group   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e 101 Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research ^*  (United States)

^f University of Notre Dame

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLOW SEPARATION; HYSTERESIS; REMOTE SENSING;

AUTONOMOUS SENSING; FLOW SEPARATION CONTROL; OPEN-LOOP ACTUATORS; PLASMA SLAT DESIGN;

WINGS;

EID: 34248326098     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.24057     Document Type: Article

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