Digital Estimation and Control for Air Refueling Rendezvous.

Abstract

Estimation and control algorithms were developed for use by a tanker aircraft conducting an air refueling rendezvous. A stochostic model of a typical rendezvous was developed first. Then an entended Kalman filter which uses air-to-air TACAN distance measurements was desinged. Also, algorithms were derived for computing the tanker's appropriate offset, turn point, and closed loop bank angle commands during the final turn of a point-parallel rendezvous.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA124883

Entities

People

  • James T. Rivard

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Navigation
  • Simulations
  • Statistics
  • Tanker Aircraft

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