Improving receiver station-keeping in aerial refueling by formulating tanker motion as disturbance

AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Elliott, Christopher M ^a   Dogan, Atilla ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR REFUELING; AIRCRAFT; ANTENNAS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

AERIAL REFUELING; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; RECEIVER STATIONS; STATE SPACE EQUATION; TANKER AIRCRAFTS; TURNING MANEUVERS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 77958188987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-5602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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