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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Autopilot"”.
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Electronic autopilot simulator
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1947.
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A new spacecraft autopilot.
Thesis. 1976. M.S. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Missile autopilot design using Mu-Synthesis
… total missile system time constant. Conventional autopilot design techniques have worked well in the past, but in order to satisfy future and more stringent design specifications, new design methods are necessary. Robust control techniques (in particular, H-Infinity Control and Mu-Synthesis) and …
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Garbarge collection for the autopilot C system
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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A digital autopilot for the Space Shuttle Vehicle,
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1974.
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Design Of An Autopilot For Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
<p>This thesis presents the design of an autopilot capable of flying small unmanned aerial vehicles with wingspans less then 21 inches. The autopilot is extremely small and lightweight allowing it to fit in aircraft of this size. The autopilot features an advanced, highly autonomous flight control …
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El impacto del autopilot en la estrategia de Tesla Inc.
… de conducción autónoma denominado enhanced autopilot, a fin de considerar cómo éste impacta en el posicionamiento y la estrategia del segmento automóviles de la compañía. En este marco, el objetivo general del mismo consistió en determinar el impacto del autopilot en la estrategia del …
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Reconfigurable autopilot design for a high performance aircraft using model predictive control
… describes the development of four types of MPC autopilots. A description of the controller implementation and failure implementation is also included. Each autopilot is subject to a surface failure during certain times in a sample maneuver and the resulting controller adaptation is analyzed. All …
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An Approach to Designing an Unmanned Helicopter Autopilot Using Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing
This dissertation investigates the application of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Simulated Annealing (SA) based search techniques to the problem of deriving an auto-pilot that can emulate a human operator or other controller flying a Small unmanned Helicopter (SH). A Helicopter is a type of Vertical …
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Development of an FPGA Based Autopilot Hardware Platform for Research and Development of Autonomous Systems
… new ideas are developed and implemented. Current autopilot hardware, which is available as on-the-market products and proposed in research, is sufficient for unmanned systems design. However, this equipment falls short of being able to accommodate the needs of those in the research community who …
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H[infinity] static feedback control with and without imaginary axis zeros for missle autopilot design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992.
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Precise nulling of attitude and motion errors of a spacecraft using a phase space autopilot.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Analysis of the altitude tracking performance of aircraft-autopilot systems in the presence of atmospheric disturbances
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1988.
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Effects of multirate compensation on a digital autopilot for thrust vector control of a launch vehicle
Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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A case study of two autopilot design methodologies : linear quadratic and H-infinity for a tail controlled missile
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993
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Safety Assurance of Non-Deterministic Flight Controllers in Aircraft Applications
… presents the design of a generic adaptive autopilot that could potentially lead to a single certification for use in several makes and models of aircraft. The autopilot consists of a conventional controller connected in series with a robust direct adaptive model reference controller. In …
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Implementation of mechanical, electrical, and feedback control systems in unmanned aerial vehicles
… and much lighter electric powered sailplane. An autopilot was implemented into both platforms that would fly the aircraft and allow the measurement of flight vehicle characteristics. A link with the vehicle was created by installing a radio modem that allowed communication between the autopilot …
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Guidance, navigation and control of a small, unmanned blended wing body aircraft
… might be for an optimal set of controllers. An autopilot was then designed which was optimised so as to be as close to the identified optimal performance characteristics as possible, with effort being put into ensuring that all non-linearities and disturbances were taken into account. This …
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The impact of GPS velocity based flight control on flight instrumentation architecture
… to provide a means for the human operator or autopilot to close the aircraft flight control loop. Issues arising from limitations in GPS as well as the presence of a human in the aircraft control loop are addressed. Results from several flight tests demonstrate the viability of this novel …
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A distributed embedded software architecture for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… that communicates directly with the UAV's autopilot to retrieve telemetry data and update the UAV's flight path. A serial communication program exchanges data with the UAV's autopilot while a multithreaded module enables concurrent onboard Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) …
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