Tracking performance of a recoverable flight control system in neutron environments

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 321-335

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Gray, W Steven ^b   González, Oscar R ^b   Lakdawala, Anushka V ^c  

^a CUMMINS INC   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerospace control; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Computers; Neutrons; Random access memory; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ACCESS CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NASA; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

NEUTRONS;

EID: 65449118471     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2009.4805282     Document Type: Article

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