Assessment of Air-to-Air Missile Guidance and Control Technology

IEEE Control Systems Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 27-34

  Cloutier, James R ^a   Evers, Johnny H ^a   Feeley, Joseph J ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS, ADAPTIVE; PROBABILITY--GAME THEORY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE GUIDANCE; BANK-TO-BURN AUTOPILOTS; DIFFERENTIAL GAME THEORY; DUAL CONTROL; TARGET STATE ESTIMATION;

ROCKETS AND MISSILES;

EID: 0024752960     PISSN: 02721708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.41440     Document Type: Article

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