Tailless aircraft control allocation

1997 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 737-747

  Buffington, James M ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONTROL SURFACES; CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUST CONTROL;

ACTUATOR SATURATIONS; CONSTRAINED PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; CONTROL SURFACE DEFLECTION; CONTROLLER STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC INVERSION CONTROL LAWS; INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; ROBUST FEEDBACK CONTROL;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84899095943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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