Investigation into the time varying mass effect on airship controller performance

AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Waishek, Jayme ^a   Kumar, Vinay ^a   Dogan, Atilla ^a   Bestaoui, Yasmina ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVRY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; ALTITUDE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUELS; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; WIND EFFECTS;

CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; EFFECT OF TIME; INERTIA PROPERTIES; MASS EFFECTS; PREVAILING WINDS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL CONTROLLERS; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING INERTIA;

TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958189229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-6150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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