Experimental results demonstrate that μ synthesis provides an excellent tool for increasing the dynamic stiffness of thrust magnetic thrust bearings. Accurate system modeling and appropriate uncertainty descriptions are critical to obtaining such results and are described in detail. Both complex μ and mixed μ synthesis were used to design controllers. The performance of the μ controllers is com...

The application of conventional wind turbines on board a vessel creates a number of new challenges for turbine control systems. Thrust force is used in marine applications as an additional control variable for propulsion of the vessel. Variability of the wind speed and wind direction, together with the yaw rate and range constraints, impose strong requirements on the turbine control system. A n...

A flight test evaluation of the performance-seeking control (PSC) algorithm on the NASA F-15 highly integrated digital electronic control research aircraft was conducted for single-engine operation at subsonic and supersonic speeds. The model-based PSC system was developed with three optimization modes: minimum fuel flow at constant thrust, minimum turbine temperature at constant thrust, and ma...

This paper considers the problem of rotating a constellation of spacecraft using on/oo thrusters such that the relative distance between the spacecraft is maintained to within a speciied tolerance. The basic idea is to resolve all of the constraints into a sphere around the desired tra-jectory of each spacecraft. As the constellation rotates, the sphere sweeps out a tube that constrains the mot...

A revolutionary approach to identifying pervasive thrust areas (and their relationships) in large textual databases was applied to a compendium of assessments of applied research areas in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) generated by the Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center (FASAC). Related thrust areas were combined to yield the following major thrust groupings: IONOSPHERIC HEATING/ MODIFIC...

We present new geologic maps of the Lake Champlain region of west-central Vermont and east-central New York State. This region contains a shallow-crustal section of an Ordovician foreland basin and a far-traveled thrust system that transported the Upper Cambrian–Lower Ordovician platform-sequence, allochthonous risefacies pelites and arenites and Middle Ordovician basinal shales and flysch. Ear...

This contribution describes the usage of the ducted fan as a possible actuator of a multicopter vehicle. The measurements are focused on both dependence of forward thrust on current consumption and on dependence of forward thrust on RPM. The measurement results of the ducted fan are compared with the measurement results of a regular propeller. The dependence of actual efficiency on static thrus...

This paper presents a model predictive thrust force control (MPTFC) method for multiple-modular permanent magnet synchronous linear motor (PMSLM). It focuses on the assignment and ripple of drive system with multiple-branch inverter. A discrete time PMSLM is established, driving structure operation principle are studied. multi-mode cost function designed according to requirements different load...