Adaptive Control and the NASA X-15-3 Flight Revisited: Lessons learned and Lyapunov-stability-based design

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 32-48

  Dydek, Zachary T ^a   Annaswamy, Anuradha M ^a   Lavretsky, Eugene ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE CONTROL METHODS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SCHEMES; ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DESIGN CONCEPT; DYNAMIC UNCERTAINTY; FLIGHT ENVELOPE; HONEYWELL; LYAPUNOV; NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; SELF-ADAPTIVE;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROLLERS; DESIGN; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT ENVELOPES; METAL VAPOR LAMPS; NASA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); SYSTEM STABILITY;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952689612     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2010.936292     Document Type: Article

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