Convex programming approach to powered descent guidance for mars landing

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1353-1366

  Açikmeşe, Behçet ^a,b,c   Ploen, Scott R ^a,b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Guidance and Control Analysis Group   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACECRAFT;

CONVEX PROGRAMMING; GUIDANCE ALGORITHM; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMING; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION;

AIRCRAFT LANDING;

EID: 35348969788     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.27553     Document Type: Article

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