The problem of improving aircraft’s capability of tracking the reference trajectory is solved by feeding the reference signal with a certain advance to the control system. It is essential that this approach imposes no constraints on the derivatives of the reference signal. The efficiency of the algorithm proposed is demonstrated against an example of an aircraft tracking a reference trajectory that does not have derivatives at some points
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 137–144, September–October 2015.
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Larin, V.B., Tunik, A.A. Improvement of Aircraft’s Capability of Tracking the Reference Trajectory. Int Appl Mech 51, 601–606 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-015-0716-4
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