On-Line Aerodynamic Identification for Space Access Vehicles (Preprint)

Abstract

This paper describes the on-going development of a comprehensive integrated guidance and control architecture featuring an on-line aerodynamic identification scheme that produces a global estimate of a damaged vehicle's aerodynamic characteristics. This estimate is used to derive updated constraints reflecting the vehicle's degraded maneuverability that are incorporated into computationally efficient algorithms for on-line trajectory reshaping/retargeting. This paper presents recent progress on a Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation approach to the global aerodynamic estimation process. The scheme utilizes diagnostic information assumed to be provided by a vehicle health monitor to generate a bank of aerodynamic models in which each model is created by an aerodynamic prediction code for a vehicle configuration reflecting a particular type of damage. The individual models are blended through weights that are adapted on-line using measured data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456973

Entities

People

  • Daniel A. Allwine
  • Douglas A. Lawrence
  • Issac Rose
  • Jeremy A. Strahler
  • Jianwei Guan
  • Joseph E. Fisher
  • Ming C. Wu

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Estimators
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Identification
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Retargeting
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers