The National Aeronautics and Space Administration created the Constellation program to develop the next generation of manned space vehicles and launch vehicles. The Orion abort system is initiated in the event of an unsafe condition during launch. The system has a controller gains schedule that can be tuned to reduce the attitude errors between the simulated Orion abort trajectories and the guidance trajectory. A program was created that uses the method of steepest descent to tune the pitch gains schedule by an automated procedure. The gains schedule optimization was applied to three potential abort scenarios; each scenario tested using the optimized gains schedule resulted in reduced attitude errors when compared to the Orion production gains schedule.


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    Title :

    Pitch Guidance Optimization for the Orion Abort Flight Tests


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2010 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference ; 2010 ; Toronto, Ontario, Canada


    Publication date :

    2010-07-14


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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