Robustness analysis of a reusable launch vehicle flight control law

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 751-765

  Menon, P P ^a   Postlethwaite, I ^a   Bennani, S ^b   Marcos, A ^c   Bates, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Advanced Projects Division   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flight control; Hybrid optimisation; Nonlinear systems; Robustness analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHODS; FLIGHT CLEARANCES; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROL LAWS; HYBRID OPTIMISATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC INVERSIONS; RE-USABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; SIMULATION MODELS;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LAUNCHING; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; REUSABILITY; REUSABLE ROCKETS; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLES;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 65449123164     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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