Control law design for a thrust vectoring fighter aircraft using robust inverse dynamics estimation (RIDE)

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 333-343

  Muir, E ^a   Bradshaw, A ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flight control; Fly by wire; Motivator redundancy; Post stall manoeuvring; Thrust vectoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MANEUVERABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AERODYNAMIC CONTROL SURFACES; FLIGHT ENVELOPE; ROBUST INVERSE DYNAMICS ESTIMATION (RIDE); THRUST VECTORING FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0030397555     PISSN: 09544100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/PIME_PROC_1996_210_378_02     Document Type: Article

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