Highly constrained optimal launch ascent guidance

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lu, Ping ^a,c   Pan, Binfeng ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c 2271 Howe Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

ASCENT TRAJECTORY; AUTOMATED GENERATION; CREW LAUNCH VEHICLES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; IN-DEPTH APPLICATION; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINT; PRIMER VECTOR THEORY; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 78049244053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-5961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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