Guidance and control - II [electronic resource] : a selection of technical papers based mainly on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance and Control Conference held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 12-14, 1963 / edited by Robert C. Langford, Charles J. Mundo.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance and Control Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Langford, Robert C.

Mundo, Charles J.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Conference Name:

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance and Control Conference (1963 : Cambridge, Mass.)

Series:

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 13.

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space vehicles--Guidance systems--Congresses.

Space vehicles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1013 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1964.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""The Guidance and Control Committee""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""I. Active and Passive Attitude Control for Space Vehicles""; ""An Introduction to Section on Attitude Control""; ""Current Status of Progress in Attitude Control""; ""A System for Passive Gravity-Gradient Stabilization of Earth Satellites""; ""Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Solar Pressure Attitude Control for Interplanetary Spacecraft""; ""Control Moment Gyro Gravity Stabilization""; ""Applications of Gyro stabilizers to Satellite Attitude Control""

""Integral Pulse Frequency On-Off Control""""A Time Optimal Attitude Control System Designed to Overcome Certain Sensor Imperfections""; ""Two-Pulse Attitude Control of an Asymmetric Spinning Satellite""; ""Bank Angle Control System for a Spinning Satellite""; ""Several Linear Stabilization and Reorientation Control System Configurations for a Rotating, Manned Orbital Space Station""; ""II. Inertial Guidance for Space Flight""; ""Drift of a Stable Platform Caused by Gyro Rotor Unbalance""; ""Stellar Alignment of a Gyroscopically Stabilized Platform during Free-Fall""

""Navigation and Guidance Systems Employing a Gimballess IMU""""Rigid Body Dynamics - Stable Platform Isolation Systems""; ""Interrogation of Spherical-Rotor Free Gyros""; ""III. Onboard Techniques for Interplanetary Flight""; ""Background and Requirements on Radar Sensors for Spacecraft""; ""Stellar Techniques for Midcourse Navigation Guidance""; ""Infrared Horizon Sensor Techniques for Lunar and Planetary Approaches""; ""Novel Solar System Compasses for Interplanetary Flight""; ""IV. Manned Control of Space Vehicles""; ""Pilot-Vehicle Control System Analysis""

""A Survey of the Development of Models for the Human Controller""""Some Predictive Characteristics of the Human Controller""; ""V. Deep Space Guidance and Navigation""; ""Discussion of Guidance Policies for Multiple-Impulse Correction of the Trajectory of a Spacecraft""; ""A Class of Unified Explicit Methods for Steering Throttle able and Fixed-Thrust Rockets""; ""New Investigations in the Field of Error Propagation""; ""Theory of Error Compensation in Astro-Inertial Guidance Systems for Low-Thrust Space Missions""; ""Statistical Filtering of Space Navigation Measurements""

""VI. Rendezvous""""Survey of Rendezvous Progress""; ""Fuel Optimization in Orbital Rendezvous""; ""Guidance System Complexity vs Fuel Consumption for Midcourse Correction of Rendezvous""; ""Application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Problem""; ""Guidance Dynamics for the Terminal Phase of Rendezvous""; ""VII. Re-Entry and Landing""; ""A Look at the Re-Entry Problem""; ""A Simple Re-Entry Guidance System""; ""A Minimum Fuel Vertical Touchdown Lunar Landing Guidance Technique""; ""Contributors to Volume 13""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60086-487-2

1-60086-268-3

OCLC:

922978747