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Christopher D'Souza
Researcher at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Publications - 26
Citations - 523
Christopher D'Souza is an academic researcher from Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Extended Kalman filter & Trajectory optimization. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 26 publications receiving 442 citations.
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An optimal guidance law for planetary landing
TL;DR: In this article, a guidance law which minimizes the commanded acceleration along with the (weighted) final time is developed, which is a linear function of the states relative to the landing point.
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Hybrid Optimal Control Framework for Mission Planning
TL;DR: A hybrid optimal control framework is proposed that mathematically formalizes categorical variables in the problem formulation and frees mission planners to focus on high-level decision making by automating and optimizing the details of the inner loops.
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Cooperative Relative Navigation of Spacecraft Using Flash Light Detection and Ranging Sensors
TL;DR: An end-to-end assessment of how flash light detection and ranging sensors may be used for relative navigation is presented and detailed discussions are provided on the topics of navigation architecture, flash light detected sensors measurements and image processing, reflector identification and the estimation of relative position and attitude.
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Image Processing of Illuminated Ellipsoid
TL;DR: Novel algorithms and the underlying mathematics to process photographs of planetary illuminated bodies and use them for navigation purposes to provide autonomous navigation capabilities to spacecrafts by observing a planet or a moon are introduced.