Active tensegrity: A control framework for an adaptive civil-engineering structure

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 2215-2223

  Adam, Bernard ^a   Smith, Ian F C ^b  

^a Ingphi SA Consulting Engineers   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive civil engineering structures; Space structures; Tensegrity structures

Indexed keywords

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SPACE PLATFORMS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

ACTIVE STRUCTURAL CONTROLS; ADAPTIVE; ADAPTIVE CIVIL-ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; COMPUTING; CONTROL FRAMEWORKS; ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; LEARNING PROCESSES; SHAPE CONTROLS; SPACE STRUCTURES; TENSEGRITY; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

EID: 54849415904     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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