Trajectory synthesis for air traffic automation

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 232-238

  Slattery, Rhonda ^a,c   Zhao, Yiyuan ^b,c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADAR EQUIPMENT;

AIR TRAFFIC AUTOMATION; FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SECOND ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA SCHEME; TRAJECTORY SYNTHESIS ALGORITHM;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0031103132     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4056     Document Type: Article

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