Reentry flight controller design using nonlinear dynamic inversion

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-71

  Da Costa, R R ^a,b   Chu, Q P ^a   Mulder, J A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; REENTRY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRAJECTORIES;

COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037284889     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3916     Document Type: Article

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