EXPLICIT GUIDANCE LAW FOR MINIMUM FUEL HORIZONTAL TRANSLATION WITH BOUNDED CONTROL.

Abstract

An explicit guidance law was developed by Conrad (AIAA J. v3 1965) for minimum fuel horizontal translation of a rocket vehicle. This note demonstrates that Conrad's guidance law can be expressed more compactly by use of dimensionless variables. It is shown that the control variable depends on only one dimensionless state variable instead of the original two state variables. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0637250

Entities

People

  • Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
  • Jason L. Speyer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Guidance

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.