24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-4.11.1

PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND FLIGHT PATH RECONSTRUCTION USING OUTPUT-ERROR METHOD

L. C. S.Góes, E. M. Hemerly*, B. C. O. Maciel
Dept. of Aeronautical-Mechanical Engineering *Div. of Electronic Engineering - Dept. of Systems and Control Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica 12228-900 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Keywords: parametric identification, sensor calibration, flight path reconstruction

This work describes the application of the output-error method using the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm to the Flight Path Reconstruction problem, which constitutes an important preliminary step towards the aircraft parameter identification.

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