Two-degree-of-freedom active vibration control of a prototyped "smart" rotor

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-296

  Van Wingerden, Jan Willem ^a   Hulskamp, Anton ^b   Barlas, Thanasis ^b   Houtzager, Ivo ^a   Bersee, Harald ^b   Van Kuik, Gijs ^b   Verhaegen, Michel ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

control; Fixed structure feedforward; Load alleviation; Trailing edge flaps; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROLS; CONTROL DEVICE; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DEDICATED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; FIXED-STRUCTURE FEEDFORWARD; LOAD ALLEVIATION; LOAD REDUCTION POTENTIAL; LOAD SIGNAL; LOOP-SHAPING; ROOT BENDING MOMENT; STRAIN SENSORS; TRAILING-EDGE FLAPS; TWO-BLADE; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; WIND ENERGY;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FEEDFORWARD CONTROL; ROTORS; SENSORS; WIND POWER;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79951911580     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2051810     Document Type: Article

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