Adaptive stochastic filtering for online aircraft flight path reconstruction

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1546-1558

  De Mendonça, Celso Braga ^a,c   Hemerly, Elder Moreira ^b,d   Góes, Luiz Carlos Sandoval ^b,e  

^a EMBRAER S A   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

^c Embraer Flight Test Engineering Division   (Peru)

^d System and Control Department   (Brazil)

^e Mechanical Aeronautical Division   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MANEUVERABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR DATA CALIBRATION; FLIGHT PATH RECONSTRUCTION; FLIGHT TEST DATA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL NOISE PROPERTIES;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 36349020415     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.27625     Document Type: Article

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