Launch vehicle trajectory optimization using a legendre pseudospectral method

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Rea, Jeremy ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ALGEBRA; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAUNCH VEHICLES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; LAUNCH VEHICLE TRAJECTORY; LEGENDRE PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PREDICTIVE GUIDANCE; PSEUDOSPECTRAL;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 85088345479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-5640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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