Design of control laws for maneuvered formation flight

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2344-2349

  Campa, Giampiero ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a   Seanor, Brad ^a   Perhinschi, Mario G ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MANEUVERABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VIRTUAL REALITY;

DYNAMIC INVERSION (DI); ELECTRONIC PAYLOAD; FLIGHT MECHANICS;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 8744308853     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/acc.2004.1383814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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