Initial Guess Generation for Aircraft Landing Trajectory Optimization

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bakolas, Efstathios ^a   Zhao, Yiming ^a   Tsiotras, Panagiotis ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Landing trajectory generation; Nu merical optimal control; Numerical trajectory generation; Three dimensional dubins paths

Indexed keywords

CONTROL INPUTS; CONTROL LIMITS; GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; INITIAL GUESS; LANDING TRAJECTORY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT LANDING; CONTROL; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAJECTORIES;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 84871823409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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