Non-linear aircraft flight path reconstruction review and new advances

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 673-726

  Mulder, J A ^a   Chu, Q P ^a   Sridhar, J K ^a   Breeman, J H ^b   Laban, M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; LINEARIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOTION CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

MODIFIED RECURSIVE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (MRML) ADAPTIVE FILTERS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0033206764     PISSN: 03760421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-0421(99)00005-6     Document Type: Review

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