A Multidisciplinary Flight Control Development Environment and Its Application to a Helicopter

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 22-33

  Tischler, Mark B ^a   Colbourne, Jason D ^b   Morel, Mark R ^b   Biezad, Daniel J ^b   Cheung, Kenny K ^c   Levine, William S ^d   Moldoveanu, Veronica ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HELICOPTERS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CONTROL DESIGNERS UNIFIED INTERFACES (CONDUIT); SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SIMULINK;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 0032641646     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.777786     Document Type: Article

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