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15 - General Engineering
University of Warwick
Robustness analysis of a reusable launch vehicle flight control law
This paper, co-authored with industrialists from DEIMOS Space SRL in Madrid and the European Space Agency in The Netherlands, reports research funded by ESA (Contract No. 19784/06/NL/JD/na) and introduced a new optimisation-based framework for the worst-case analysis of space flight control systems. This framework was further developed over the subsequent 5 years via 8 other ESA research contracts worth a total of €485K. It has been applied to applications ranging from Autonomous Satellites, Hypersonic Re-Entry Vehicles, and Entry, Descent and Landing Systems. (Contact: Dr. Samir Bennani, Guidance, Navigation and Control Group, ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands, samir.bennani@esa.int)