Fuzzy guidance of the shuttle orbiter during atmospheric reentry

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-303

  Bikdash, Marwan ^a   Sartor, Ken ^b   Homaifar, Abdollah ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations; Fuzzy inference; Guidance laws; Shuttle reentry; Surface tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; SPACE SHUTTLES;

ON-LINE OPTIMIZERS; SHUTTLE ORBITERS; SURFACE TRACKING GUIDANCE;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 0033100465     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00188-9     Document Type: Article

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