Aerodynamic parameter estimation from flight data applying extended and unscented Kalman filter

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 106-117

  Chowdhary, Girish ^a   Jategaonkar, Ravindra ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Recursive parameter estimation; System identification

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; AERODYNAMIC MODELING; AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; AEROSPACE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DUAL ESTIMATION; FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL; FILTERING PROPERTIES; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DATA; INTEGRAL PART; KALMAN-FILTERING; LIFE-CYCLE PROCESS; NON-LINEAR FILTERING PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; ONLINE PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECURSIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RECURSIVE PARAMETERS; ROTARY WING; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM HEALTH MONITORING; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIXED WINGS; METAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 75949090857     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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