A comparison of powered descent guidance laws for Mars pinpoint landing

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1724-1739

  Ploen, Scott R ^a,b   Acikmese, A Behcet ^a,b   Wolf, Aron ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Guidance and Control Analysis Group   (United States)

^c EDL Aero Applications Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS PINPOINT LANDING (PPL); POLYNOMIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; VIOLATING FUEL;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LANDING; POLYNOMIALS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846008332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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