Control and robustness analysis for a high-α maneuverable thrust-vectoring fighter aircraft

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1483-1496

  Atesoglu, Özgür ^a,c   Kemal Ozgoren M ^b,d  

^a ASELSAN INC   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Guidance and Control Division   (Turkey)

^d MS 11 B

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; CONTROL SURFACES; CONTROLLERS; ENGINES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; NON-LINEAR AERODYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC INVERSION; NONLINEAR FLIGHT DYNAMICS; STRUCTURED SINGULAR VALUES; THRUST VECTORING CONTROL;

ROBUST CONTROL;

EID: 72149096002     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.42989     Document Type: Article

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