Cable assisted rendezvous for aircraft with surface locations

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 73-78

  Sgarioto, Daniel ^a   Trivailo, Pavel ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cables; Dynamic modelling; Nonlinear programming; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CABLES; DYNAMIC MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL EFFORT; GROUND BASED; LEGENDRE PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; MINIMUM TIME; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; SURFACE LOCATION; TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 79960710944     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.01973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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