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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
A computer model for a fixed-trim re-entry vehicle using the Gracey guidance law with evasive capabilities
Abstract
dc:description.abstractAdvances in strategic missile systems are needed to provide a capability to attack targets that are hardened and, perhaps defended. In this study a point-mass simulation employing an advanced guidance law is examined for its accuracy and evasive capabilities. A nonlinear programming (NLP} formulation is used to pose a problem of optimal evasive-maneuvering. The resulting NLP problem is solved numerically by an advanced gradient-projection algorithm.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M. S.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1983
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Schanck, Richard Wayne
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/10919/114614
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/114614