Optimal Control and Applications to Aerospace: Some Results and Challenges

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 713-758

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^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric reentry; Conjugate point; Continuation homotopy method; Dynamical systems; Geometric optimal control; Mission design; Numerical methods; Optimal control; Optimal synthesis; Orbit transfer; Pontryagin maximum principle; Second order conditions; Shooting method

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ORBITS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE SHUTTLES; SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY; CONJUGATE POINTS; CONTINUATION/HOMOTOPY METHOD; GEOMETRIC OPTIMAL CONTROL; HOMOTOPY METHOD; MISSION DESIGN; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS; ORBIT TRANSFER; PONTRYAGIN'S MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SECOND-ORDER CONDITIONS; SHOOTING METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84865413835     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-012-0050-5     Document Type: Article

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