Kalman Filter-Based Maximum A Posteriori Probability Detection of Boiling Water Reactor Stability

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 750-756

  Turso, James A ^a   Edwards, Robert M ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic response; fission reactors; Kalman filtering; nonlinear systems; nuclear power generation control; stability

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; KALMAN FILTERING; MONITORING; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AVERAGE POWER RANGE MONITOR; GLOBAL SYSTEM STABILITY; NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION CONTROL; PROBABILITY DETECTION;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444370140     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: 15580865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2004.825148     Document Type: Article

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