Low-thrust nonlinear guidance by tracking mean orbital elements

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1103-1110

  Gao, Yang ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CLASSICAL ORBITAL ELEMENTS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; FINITE TIME HORIZON; NOMINAL TRAJECTORY; NON-LINEAR GUIDANCE; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TRANSFER TRAJECTORY;

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EID: 48849091601     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.31256     Document Type: Article

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