Optimal power-limited rendezvous with upper and lower bounds on thrust

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1124-1133

  Carter, Thomas E ^a,c   Pardis, Cyrus J ^b  

^a EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ON-OFF CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

OPTIMAL POWER LIMITED RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT THRUSTERS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 0030242289     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21754     Document Type: Article

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