Fault tolerance and extrapolation stability of a neural network air-data estimator

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 571-576

  Rohloff, Thomas J ^a   Catton, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

FREESTREAM STATIC PRESSURE; NEURAL NETWORK FLUSH AIR DATA SENSING SYSTEM;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0344339128     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2472     Document Type: Article

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