Optimal symmetric flight with an intermediate vehicle model

DOI10.2514/3.19981zbMATH Open0576.93037OpenAlexW3183993811MaRDI QIDQ3696971FDOQ3696971

Authors: P. K. A. Menon, Henry J. Kelley, Eugene M. Cliff 

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/106344

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zbMATH Keywords

vehicle modelaltitude-speed-range-time optimizationOptimal flight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Control/observation systems governed by ordinary differential equations (93C15) General aerodynamics and subsonic flows (76G25)

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