Verification of obstacle accountability areas using a simple mathematical model: part I: description of general model and application for a specific case

A probabilistic model is described for the lateral displacement of an aircraft after the occurrence of an engine failure during take-off. With the model, a lateral boundary is calculated, for any point of time after the engine failure, such that the probability of being within the (two sided) lateral boundary meets a specified value. Various...

Processing of Meteosat attitude measurement flight data and evaluation of the performance of an adaptive filtering technique

The attitude measurement data of the ESA geosynchronous spacecraft METEOSAT have been analyzed using an adaptive recursive filtering technique developed at NLR. The mathematical models of spacecraft dynamics and sensors have been kept very simple. Modelling errors are such that, without adaptive feed-back, strong divergence of the filtering...