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{{HTDB paper
| authors = Trygve Lauvdal and Richard M. Murray
| title = Stabilization of a Pitch Axis Flight Control Experiment with Input Rate Saturation
| source = <i>Modeling, Identification and Control</i>, 20(4):225-240
| year = 1999
| type = Conference paper
| funding = ONR 
| url = http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/preprints/lm97-gnc.pdf
| abstract = 
Motivated by problems in flight control, we present a technique for
stabilizing a chain 
of integrators in the presence of rate limitations on the input.  Our
technique improves on several existing techniques in the literature
and has a number of interesting features.  The controller is
evaluated experimentally on a pitch axis flight control experiment at
Caltech.  The experimental results show that even in the presence of
rate limits that cause a linear controller to go unstable, the
time-varying controller stabilizes the system with minimal loss in performance.
| flags = 
| tag = lm97-gnc
| id = 1997f
}}