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Rickey Dubay1, Marwan Hassan2, Chunying Li1

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, 15 Dineen Drive, P.O. Box 4400, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B5A3.

ISA Transactions
|June 24, 2014
PubMed

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Active vibration suppressionFinite element modelFlexible manipulatorModel predictive control

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