Retrospective and recent examples of aircraft parameter identification at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 752-764

  Wang, K Charles ^a,b   Iliff, Kenneth W ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b M/S: M6 206 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SHUTTLES; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNSTEADY FLOW;

MACH NUMBERS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; TIME VECTOR TECHNIQUE;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 4344586419     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.332     Document Type: Article

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