Closed Loop Organic Wind Tunnel (CLOWT): Design, Components and Control System

Closed-Loop Control Wind Tunnel Tests on an Adaptive Wind Turbine Blade for Load Reduction

Wind tunnel tests on a non-rotating, dynamically scaled wind turbine blade equipped with variable trailing edge geometry were carried out. The effectiveness of the system for active load reduction purposes, with the interaction between structural dynamics, aerodynamics and control was tested. The actuation of the adaptive trailing edge was based on a piezoelectric bender actuator. The full aero...

Circuit Design of Digital Closed Loop Control System for FOG

Fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) is a new angular rate sensor based on the Sagnac effect. It has been widely applied in the navigation control system of aircrafts, spacecrafts and ships. But its stability, reliability and miniaturization are always the research focuses and difficulties. This paper presented a circuit design method for the digital closed loop control system of FOG based on FPGA. Base...

From experiment design to closed-loop control

The links between identification and control are examined. The main trends in this research area are summarized, with particular focus on the design of low complexity controllers from a statistical perspective. It is argued that a guiding principle should be to model as well as possible before any model or controller simplifications are made as this ensures the best statistical accuracy. This d...

A Kbe System for the Design of Wind Tunnel Models Using Reusable Knowledge Components

Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) has gradually gained prominence as a major tool to speed up product development, especially in large scale projects such the ones that take place in aerospace and automotive industry. The encoding of design knowledge from domain experts into computer codes that can generate complex geometric data has demonstrated significant savings in manpower and time resourc...

Motor / Tachometer Closed - Loop Speed Control System