Closed-Loop Performance Measures for Flight Controllers Subject to Neutron-Induced Upsets

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2465-2470

  Gray, W Steven ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   González, Oscar R ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

RECOVERABLE COMPUTER SYSTEMS (RCS); SINGLE EVENT EFFECT (SEE); TRANSITION PROBABILITY;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542318975     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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