This paper addresses trajectory optimization for hypersonic vehicles under atmospheric and aerodynamic uncertainties using techniques from desensitized optimal control (DOC), wherein open-loop optimal controls are obtained by minimizing the sum of the standard objective function and a first-order penalty on trajectory variations due to parametric uncertainty. The proposed approach is demonstrated via numerical simulations of a minimum-final-time Earth reentry trajectory for an X-33 vehicle with an uncertain atmospheric scale height and drag coefficient. Monte Carlo simulations indicate that dispersions in the final position footprint and the final energy can be significantly reduced without closed-loop control and with little tradeoff in the performance metric set for the trajectory.


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    Title :

    Desensitized Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Vehicles




    Publication date :

    2021-03-06


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    3402548 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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