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The Force due to drag in 2D is given by
Unlike the 1D case, which uses the absolute value, the direction of the drag force in 2D is taken into account by the magnitude of the velocity times the component velocities such that the x and y components of the drag force are
The equations of motion for this problem are
where T is the applied Torque in Newtons, is the angle of
applied torque counter clockwise from the negative x-axis and
is the
mass
of the airship.
The performance measure for the minimum energy problem assuming there is no effort required to change the angle of attack
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The Hamiltonian for this optimal control problem
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The neccessary conditions for the costates are
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