Modeling, Control, and Flight Testing of a Small Ducted Fan Aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 4419-4441

  Johnson, Eric N ^a,b,c   Turbe, Michael A ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Avionics Integration ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; LOW SPEED FLIGHT ENVELOPE; NEURAL NETWORK ADAPTATION;

AERODYNAMICS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SPACE RESEARCH;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 29744467482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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