A Nonlinear Helicopter Tracker Using Attitude Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 40-47

  Andrisani, Dominick ^a   Kim, Eung Tai ^a   Schierman, John ^a   Kuhl, Frank E ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION - KALMAN FILTERING;

ATTITUDE MEASUREMENTS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; NONLINEAR HELICOPTER TRACKER; SIMULATED HELICOPTER MANEUVER;

RADAR;

EID: 0025742008     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.68146     Document Type: Article

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