Deferred-correction optimal control with applications to inverse problems in flight mechanics

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 101-108

  Bottasso, Carlo L ^a,b   Ragazzi, Andrea ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Dipto di Ingegneria Aerospaziale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DEFERRED-CORRECTION ACCELERATION METHOD; FINITE-ELEMENT-IN-TIME METHOD;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034825443     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4681     Document Type: Article

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