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In this paper, the attainability domain of a coasting vehicle in horizontal flight is determined. The coasting vehicle is assumed to control perfectly the angle of attack, assumed unlimited. The aerodynamic forces acting on the vehicle are explicitly modelled as nonlinear functions of the angle of attack.
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Communicated by G. Leitmann
This work was done while the author was at the Laboratoire d'Automatique Théorique, Faculté des Sciences, Paris, France.
The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance given by Mr. J. Bugin and Mrs. Z. Hazan in performing some of the computations required in this work.
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Guelman, M. The attainability domain of a coasting vehicle. J Optim Theory Appl 39, 417–430 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00934547
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