Predictive control of a Boeing 747 aircraft using an FPGA

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 4, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 80-85

  Hartley, Edward N ^a   Jerez, Juan L ^b   Suardi, Andrea ^b   Maciejowski, Jan M ^a   Kerrigan, Eric C ^b   Constantinides, George A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CONTROLLERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LINEAR SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; ITERATIVE LINEAR SOLVER; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; QUADRATIC PROGRAMS; REAL-TIME HARDWARE; REDUCED PRECISION; SCALING PROCEDURES;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867073130     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20120823-5-NL-3013.00016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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