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Manufacture du textile en Grande-Bretagne
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Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Faguy Tamwo Simo
This paper provides a sensorless method to control the position of keys passing through a linear actuator used in an industrial textile machine. The presented method describes how to find out the position of the key using two cascading discrete Kalman filt ...
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