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Flight computer

Flight computer, or simply the "whiz wheel", is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread… 
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2014
2014
Towards Autonomous Navigation of Miniature UAV
Micro air vehicles such as miniature rotorcrafts require high-precision and fast localization updates for their control, but… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Inertial MEMS Systems and Applications
This paper provides a survey of some of the available MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and some of the applications that… 
2010
2010
A DSP FPGA based Hardware-in-the-Loop testing platform
Recently, there has been a need of small size UAV for vast applications in military and civilian applications as local area… 
2010
2010
Colloid Micro-Newton Thrusters for the space technology 7 mission
Two flight-qualified clusters of four Colloid Micro-Newton Thruster (CMNT) systems have been delivered to the Jet Propulsion… 
2010
2010
Reaction Control System
2007
2007
Investigation of Nonlinear Control Strategies Using GPS Simulator And Spacecraft Attitude Control Simulator
2004
2004
Mars Exploration Rover Terminal Descent Mission Modeling and Simulation
Because of NASA's added reliance on simulation for successful interplanetary missions, the MER mission has developed a detailed… 
2000
2000
NASA's 3D Flight Computer for Space Applications
The New Millennium Program (NMP) Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT) for Microelectronics Systems was planning to validate… 
1994
1994
AN INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE FOR MISSILE THRUST VECTOR CONTROL
1984
1984
FORTH direct execution processors in the Hopkins ultraviolet telescope
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have designed and built two computers which will control and… 
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