Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal impulsive rendezvous with linear equations of motion

Dynamics and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-227

  Carter, Thomas E ^a  

^a Eastern Conneticut State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; VECTORS;

OPTIMAL IMPULSIVE RENDEZVOUS; PRIMER VECTOR THEORY;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034217074     PISSN: 09254668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008376427023     Document Type: Article

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