Optimal control of aerial tethers for payload rendezvous

2004 5th Asian Control Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 396-404

  Trivailo, Pavel ^a   Sgarioto, Daniel ^a   Blanksby, Chris ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; DRAG; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AERIAL TETHERS; AIR DENSITY; CHEBYSHEV-PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; CONSTANT VELOCITIES;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 16244382380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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