Design and implementation of digital controllers for smart structures using field programmable gate arrays

Physics & Astronomy

• actuators 6%
• cantilever beams 9%
• chips 6%
• configurations 4%
• controllers 72%
• costs 5%
• cycles 5%
• degradation 5%
• engineers 15%
• field-programmable gate arrays 91%
• hardware 37%
• hardware description languages 12%
• linear transformations 10%
• matrices 4%
• methodology 6%
• modules 6%
• performance 6%
• platforms 6%
• requirements 10%
• sensitivity 4%
• smart structures 100%
• translating 9%
• VHSIC (circuits) 14%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Actuators 5%
• Cantilever beams 8%
• Computational efficiency 7%
• Computer hardware 22%
• Computer hardware description languages 8%
• Controllers 38%
• Costs 2%
• Degradation 5%
• Engineers 10%
• Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) 57%
• Intelligent structures 90%
• Linear transformations 9%
• MATLAB 6%
• Sensors 4%

Chemistry

• Cantilever Beam 56%
• Chemical Transformation 44%