Inertial measurements from flight data of a flapping-wing ornithopter

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 326-331

  Grauer, Jared A ^a,b   Hubbard Jr , James E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT AVIONICS; FLAPPING WING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; ROTATIONAL VELOCITY; STATE VARIABLES;

WINGS;

EID: 60349093721     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.37495     Document Type: Article

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