Dynamic and control issues of formation flight

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Giulietti, Fabrizio ^a   Innocenti, Mario ^b   Napolitano, Marcello ^c   Pollini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation flight; Horse shoe vortex; LMI design; Migrational birds; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DRAG; LIFT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

FORMATION FLIGHT; HORSE-SHOE VERTEX; LMI DESIGN; MIGRATIONAL BIRDS; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 27544475450     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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