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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Aerial Refueling"”.
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Modeling Aerial Refueling Operations
Aerial Refueling: AR) is the act of offloading fuel from one aircraft: the tanker) to another aircraft: the receiver) in mid flight. Meetings between tanker and receiver aircraft are referred to as AR events and are scheduled to: escort one or more receivers across a large body of water; refuel one …
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System design and optimization of an aerial refueling system for transcontinental flights
… In this study, we propose a floating air refueling system (FARS) to reduce fuel costs on intercontinental flights. In this system, we launch a tanker to refuel incoming intercontinental aircraft. Through the refueling process, intercontinental flights avoid the exponential fuel consumption …
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Nonlinear equilibrium and perturbation solutions for a hose-drogue aerial refueling system
… models are developed for a hose-drogue refueling system in an attempt to represent the physical system accurately and to subsequently observe the dynamic response of the system under different initial conditions. The mathematical models examined include a flexible hose model and a model …
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Optimization Models and Approximate Algorithms for the Aerial Refueling Scheduling and Rescheduling Problems
<p>The Aerial Refueling Scheduling Problem (ARSP) can be defined as determining the refueling completion times for fighter aircrafts (jobs) on multiple tankers (machines) to minimize the total weighted tardiness. ARSP can be modeled as a parallel machine scheduling with release times and due …
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Verifiable Adaptive Control Solutions for Flight Control Applications
… problems relevant to flight control for aerial vehicles and weapons in highly uncertain dynamical environment. The approach taken in this dissertation is the L1 adaptive control, which is elaborated from its design perspective for output feedback solution and is extended to time-varying …
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Pilot Variability During Pilot-Induced Oscillation
… because of the tight tracking task used during aerial refueling. While performing spectrograms and power spectral analysis, an increase in power concentration at the PIO frequency was observed. With a linear approximation of the F-14 aircraft dynamics, a closed-loop system containing the …
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Hardware Testbed for Relative Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles Using Visual Servoing
Future generations of unmanned spacecraft, aircraft, ground, and submersible vehicles will require precise relative navigation capabilities to accomplish missions such as formation operations and autonomous rendezvous and docking. The development of relative navigation sensing and control …