Flight-path reconstruction using numerical optimization

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 959-962

  De Try, Fredrik ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Aeronautical Engineering ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING; VECTORS;

FLIGHT TESTING; FLIGHT-PATH RECONSTRUCTION; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS (IMU); STATE VARIABLES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 4344610327     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6877     Document Type: Article

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