Individual channel analysis and helicopter flight control in moderate- and large-amplitude manoeuvres

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-38

  Dudgeon, G J W ^a   Gribble, J J ^a   O'Reilly, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aerospace control; helicopter control; helicopter dynamics; nonlinear control; robustness

Indexed keywords

HELICOPTER FLIGHT CONTROL; INDIVIDUAL CHANNEL ANALYSIS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0030883537     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(96)00204-3     Document Type: Article

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