Tensegrity flight simulator

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1055-1064

  Sultan, Cornel ^a,c   Corless, Martin ^a   Skelton, Robert E ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Molecular Geodesies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DRAG; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LIFT; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WINGS;

STEWART PLATFORM; TENDON CONTROL TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 0034315862     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4647     Document Type: Article

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