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Author:: Hathaway, Eric L
Title:: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TECHNIQUES FOR TILTROTOR AEROELASTIC STABILITY AUGMENTATION
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: aeroelastic stability
whirl flutter
tiltrotor
active control
optimization
File:: Download hathaway_phd_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Guanghui
Title:: SPEED SENSOR-LESS CONTROL OF INDUCTION MACHINE BASED ON CARRIER SIGNAL INJECTION AND SMOOTH-AIR-GAP INDUCTION MACHINE
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Induction machine
Speed Sensor-less
Control
File:: Download mythesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Heath Hofmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

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Author:: Kim, Gi-Woo
Title:: DESIGN AND NONLINEAR FORCE CONTROL OF A POWER-BY-WIRE PIEZOELECTRIC-HYDRAULIC PUMP ACTUATOR FOR AUTOMOTIVE TRANSMISSIONS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Piezoelectric-Hydraulic Pump
Automotive Transmission
Nonlinear Force Control
File:: Download ThesisMaster.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Kon Well Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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Author:: DeSmidt, Hans A.
Title:: ROBUST-ADAPTIVE ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL OF ALLOY AND FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITE ROTORCRAFT DRIVELINES VIA MAGNETIC BEARINGS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Adaptive Control
Magnetic Bearings
Driveline Active Vibration Contol
Helicopter Driveline
Flexible Matrix Composite
Periodic Time-Varying System
File:: Download thesis_desmidt.pdf
Committee Members:: Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alfred Scott Lewis, Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

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Author:: Kommepalli, Hareesh Kumar Reddy
Title:: DESIGN, MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Tbeam
unimorph
piezoelectric actuators
uniflex
flextensional
MEMS
File:: Download Hareesh_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member

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Author:: Hailu, Haftay
Title:: DIMENSIONAL TRANFORMATION: A NOVEL METHOD FOR GAIN-SCHEDULING AND ROBUST CONTROL
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: robust control
gain-scheduling
dimensional transformation
dimensional analysis
File:: Download Hailu_PhD_Dissertation2006.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Mario Sznaier, Committee Member
Barbara E Kulakowski, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member

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Author:: YU, HONGBIAO
Title:: PIEZOELECTRIC NETWORKING FOR MODE DELOCALIZATION AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSION OF NEARLY PERIODIC STRUCTURES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: VIBRATION CONTROL
PERIODIC STRUCTURE
VIBRATION LOCALIZATION
PIEZOELECTRIC
File:: Download Yu_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhao, Haiyu
Title:: Passive, Iterative, and Repetitive Control for Flexible Distributed Parameter Systems
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Feedforward control
flexible distributed parameter systems
vibration control
BIBO stability
File:: Download Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member

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Author:: Corl, Jonas Daniel
Title:: A COMPARISON OF HELICOPTER ACTIVE ROTOR GUST REJECTION AND VIBRATION ALLEVIATION METHODS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: helicopter
swashplate
active rotor
File:: Download JonasCorlMSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Hill, Jeffrey Ray
Title:: High Precision Surface Control of Flexible Space Reflectors
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Gossamer
control
En Masse Elimination
modeling
File:: Download Hill_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Kon Well Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

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