Optimal Space Flight Navigation An Analytical Approach /

• Main Author: Tewari, Ashish (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Control Engineering,
• Subjects: System theory.; Control engineering.; Calculus of variations.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Systems Theory, Control.; Control and Systems Theory.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

This book consolidates decades of knowledge on space flight navigation theory, which has thus far been spread across various research articles. By gathering this research into a single text, it will be more accessible to students curious about the study of space flight navigation. Books on optimal c...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Analytical Optimal Control
• 3. Orbital Mechanics and Impulsive Transfer
• 4. Two-Body Maneuvers with Unbounded Continuous Inputs
• 5. Optimal Maneuvers with Bounded Inputs
• 6. Flight in Non-spherical Gravity Fields.