A landing approach guidance scheme for unpowered lifting vehicles.
Subsonic glide landing approach guidance for unpowered lifting vehicles, using perturbation feedback and approximation of heading and position coordinates
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Subsonic glide landing approach guidance for unpowered lifting vehicles, using perturbation feedback and approximation of heading and position coordinates
Conjugate gradient methods for optimization problems with terminal constraints, noting minimum time paths for V/STOL aircraft climb phase
Thrust, bank angle and angle of attack of aircraft minimum fuel lateral turns at constant altitude and specified velocities
Maximum trajectory for glider entering earth atmosphere at supercircular velocity, subject to maximum altitude constraint
Perturbation feedback guidance for terminal phase of lifting body entry vehicle
Maximum likelihood smoother using measurements containing correlated noise for application to continuous linear dynamic systems such as inertial navigation
Energy state approximation for supersonic aircraft performance optimization with extension to maximum range problems, noting comparison with complex dynamic models
Multistage linear dynamic systems with sequentially correlated noise, evaluating filtering, prediction and smoothing procedures
Neighboring optimum feedback control scheme based on estimated time-to-go applied to reentry flight paths
Linear maximum likelihood smoothing for case of measurements containing noise with correlation times comparable to response time, noting application to inertial navigation
Conjugate gradient methods application to terminal and in-flight constraints for V/STOL flight path optimization
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Multistage linear dynamic systems with sequentially correlated noise, evaluating filtering, prediction and smoothing procedures
Filtering, prediction, and smoothing procedures for multi-stage linear dynamic systems using sampled data with sequentially correlated noise
Neighboring optimum feedback control system for reentry flight paths
Optimal smoother derived for linear time-varying systems using measurements containing colored noise by means of calculus of variations
Computation of arcs for optimal flight paths with state variable inequality constraints
Numerical solution of optimal control and programming problems