Design, fabrication, and testing of a new twist-active wing design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3329, Issue , 1998, Pages 33-41

  Barrett, Ronald M ^a   Law, David ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active; Adaptive; DAP; Flight control; MAV; Piezoelectric; Wing twist

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AIRCRAFT; CONCRETE BRIDGES; DESIGN; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW STRUCTURE; GRAPHITE; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TESTING;

ACTIVE; ADAPTIVE; DAP; FLIGHT CONTROL; MAV; PIEZOELECTRIC; WING TWIST;

WINGS;

EID: 57649142979     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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