Fault-tolerant design considerations and control strategies for aerospace drives

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2049-2058

  Bennett, John W ^a   Atkinson, Glynn J ^a   Mecrow, Barrie C ^a   Atkinson, David J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators; aerospace electronics; aerospace industry; aerospace safety; aircraft power systems; bearings (mechanical); fault tolerance; redundancy; safety; variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACTUATORS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AIRCRAFT POWER SYSTEMS; BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; MECHANICAL DRIVES; REDUNDANCY; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS; AEROSPACE SAFETIES; BEARINGS (MECHANICAL); DRIVE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; FAULT TOLERANT DESIGN; FAULT TOLERANT DRIVE; REDUNDANCY TECHNIQUES;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84857022715     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2159356     Document Type: Article

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