Acknowledgment
This Master Thesis was carried out at the Aerospace Department of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
I’d like to thank my examiner Prof. Dr. Mario Innocenti for giving me the opportunity of doing this thesis.
I’d like to thank all teachers and instructors at METU, especially Prof. Dr. Nafiz Alemdaroˇglu for allowing me doing this thesis.
Furthermore, I want to thank Dr. Volkan Nalbantoˇglu for his help, support and all the discus- sions throughout this project. It was a pleasure to work with him.
Thanks also go to H¨useyin Yiˇgitler for all his support, technical and personal. I hope we’ll meet again.
Thanks to all the guys at the ”Hangar”, especially to Volkan, Sercan, Serhan and Fikkri for the enjoyable and nice time there.
A special thank goes to Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Pollini from the Electrical Systems and Automation Department, faculty of Engineering, at Pisa University for the help with the sensor data acquisition.
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