Model-Based Control of Active Tilting-Pad Bearings

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 689-695

  Wu, An ^a   de Queiroz, Marcio S ^a   Cai, Zhijun ^b  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Active bearings; control; model based control; nonlinear; tilting pad bearings

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008042545     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: 1941014X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.911636     Document Type: Article

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