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Description and performance of the Saturn launch vehicle's navigation, guidance, and control system

Walter Haeussermann
- 01 Mar 1970 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 1, pp 275-312
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Saturn launch vehicle navigation, guidance and control system, discussing optimal system design for flight path optimization as mentioned in this paper, discusses optimal trajectory optimization for a single-stage launch vehicle with a single launch vehicle.
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This article is published in IFAC Proceedings Volumes.The article was published on 1970-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guidance, navigation and control & Inertial navigation system.

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Analysis and Design of Launch Vehicle Flight Control Systems

TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental principles of launch vehicle flight control analysis and design are described and their performance and stability robustness with respect to modeling uncertainties and a gimbal angle constraint is discussed.
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Advances in trajectory optimization for space vehicle control

TL;DR: A detailed overview of recent advances, successes, and promising directions for optimization-based space vehicle control can be found in this paper, where the primary focus is on the last ten years, which have seen a veritable rise in the number of applications using three core technologies: lossless convexification, sequential convex programming, and model predictive control.
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Saturn launch vehicle's navigation guidance, and control system

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the navigation, guidance and control system of Saturn launch vehicles with respect to systems engineering; operational requirements and design aspects determine the synthesis and the implementation of the system, which must fulfill extreme reliability demands.
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Robust and adaptive TVC control design approaches for the VEGA launcher

TL;DR: It is shown that these robust control approaches can provide a direct trade-off between robustness versus performance, reduce tuning effort across launch missions and has the capability to simultaneously handle multiple performance requirements and also to explicitly include system uncertainties in the design.
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Paper: Flat-earth guidance law using inflight vehicle parameter identification

Helmut Bittner
- 01 Sep 1976 - 
TL;DR: The formulation and simulation testing of a Flat Earth Guidance Law using a quadratic injection criterion and inflight vehicle parameter identification and updating and eliminates the distortion of the attitude law at injection due to vehicle parameter deviations from nominal.
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Application of redundancy in the Saturn 5 guidance and control system

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the benefits of redundancy in the context of the Saturn launch vehicle's guidance and control system and compare the theoretical gain in reliability resulting from redundancy compared to a simplex system.

Application of an iterative guidance mode to a lunar landing

TL;DR: Optimization of space-vehicle trajectories by use of iterative guidance mode that minimizes midflight recalculation time for new optimum trajectories is discussed in this article.
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Stability Areas of Missile Control Systems

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of areas of interest for missive detection for a selected service provider, based on the characteristics of the service provider and the circumstances of the missive.