Guidance and control (G&C) technologies play a central role in the development and
operation of vehicular systems. The emergence of computational guidance and control …

Abstract Space mission design places a premium on cost and operational efficiency. The
search for new science and life beyond Earth calls for spacecraft that can deliver scientific …

Vehicular optimal control problems have been studied extensively since the early part of the
20th century. Progress in solving these problems has been driven primarily by applications …

Reliable and efficient trajectory generation methods are a fundamental need for
autonomous dynamical systems. The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive …

The design of advanced guidance and control (G&C) systems for space/aerospace vehicles
has received a large amount of attention worldwide during the last few decades and will …

IN THE field of guidance of aerospace vehicles, attention is con-sistently drawn to solutions
that are effective in constrained circumstances. Optimal control enables the generation of the …

Motivated by aerospace applications, this paper presents a methodology to use second-
order cone programming to solve nonconvex optimal control problems. The nonconvexity …

This paper proposes a novel algorithm, based on model predictive control (MPC), for the
optimal guidance of a launch vehicle upper stage. The guidance algorithm must take into …

Convex optimization is a class of mathematical programming problems with polynomial
complexity for which state-of-the-art, highly efficient numerical algorithms with …

Reliable and efficient trajectory generation methods are a fundamental need for
autonomous dynamical systems of tomorrow. The goal of this article is to provide a …