This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the analysis and design of health management systems for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles. Such systems rely upon monitoring and fault adaptation schemes. Motivation for their study comes from the fact that, despite the use of fault-tolerant control software and hardware embedded onboard air vehicles, overall fleet performanc…
2010. — 23 с.RPA (Rocket Propulsion Analysis) is a tool for the performance prediction of the liquid-propellant rocket engines. RPA is written in C++ programming language and can be used on MS Windows and many Linux and UNIX systems. This document presents the equations used for the combustion equilibrium and performance calculations. Results obtained from implementing these equations will …
Cleveland, Ohio: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Glenn Research Center, 2004. 160 p.This document was generated for the NASA Glenn Research Center, in accordance with a Memorandum of Agreement among the Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), The Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Pres…
Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration. This enthusiasm and eagerness has been spurred on by the fact that for the first time since the very beginning of the space age, space travel is no longer limited to an elite group of highly trained and well-disciplined military officers and test pilots. Instead, we must …