Aircraft system identification; theory and practice.1563478323 Aircraft system identification; theory and practice. Klein, Vladislav and Eugene A. Morelli. Am. Inst. of Aero. & Astro. 2006 484 pages $119.95 Hardcover AIAA AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. AIAA Associate Insurance Agency Administration (LOMA insurance program) AIAA Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. education series TL670 This comprehensive overview is based on real-time applications and procedures used by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , and includes a wide range of examples based on actual flight-test and wind tunnel wind tunnel, apparatus for studying the interaction between a solid body and an airstream. A wind tunnel simulates the conditions of an aircraft in flight by causing a high-speed stream of air to flow past a model of the aircraft (or part of an aircraft) being tested. data. Klein (engineering emeritus, The George Washington U.) and Morelli, a research engineer at NASA, describe the elements of system theory, including modeling and parameter estimation, a mathematical model and the ways interconnecting and separate systems are assessed with it, estimation theory, regression methods, maximum likelihood methods, frequency domain methods, experiment design, data compatibility, data analysis, and applications of MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) A programming language for technical computing from The MathWorks, Natick, MA (www.mathworks.com). Used for a wide variety of scientific and engineering calculations, especially for automatic control and signal processing, MATLAB runs on Windows, Mac and software. Appendices give the mathematical background, information on probability and statistics See the separate articles on probability or the article on statistics. Statistical analysis depends on the characteristics of particular probability distributions, and the two topics are normally studied together. as well as random variables, reference information, and material on an F-16 nonlinear simulation. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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