Drag coefficient curve identification of projectiles from flight tests via optimal dynamic fitting

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 627-636

  Chen, Yangquan ^a   Wen, Changyun ^a   Gong, Zhiming ^a   Sun, Mingxuan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

curve fitting; data reduction; identification; optimal control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECTILES;

NEWTON-RAPHSON ITERATION; OPTIMAL TRACKING CONTROL PROBLEM (OTCP);

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031148518     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(97)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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