OPTIMUM HORIZONTAL GUIDANCE TECHNIQUES FOR AIRCRAFT

This paper discusses some problems of automatic guidance of an aircraft in the horizontal plane. The guidance laws given in this paper minimize the arc length of the trajectories to fly between initial and final conditions subject to a constraint on the turning radius of the aircraft.

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• Authors:
  • Erzberger, H
  • Lee, H Q
• Publication Date: 1971-2

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Journal of Aircraft
  • Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • ISSN: 0021-8669
  • Serial URL: https://arc.aiaa.org/journal/ja

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Flight paths
• Non-Preferred Terms: Turning (Aircraft pilotage)
• Old TRIS Terms: Horizontal turning; Turning flight
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00073416
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: Vol 8 No 2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM