Overview
- Collects decades of knowledge regarding optimal space flight navigation theory in an accessible manner
- Emphasizes an analytical approach to optimal space navigation
- Guides readers from basic to advanced concepts using exercises and interesting examples
Part of the book series: Control Engineering (CONTRENGIN)
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About this book
The opening chapters introduce essential concepts within optimal control theory, such as the optimization of static systems, special boundary conditions, and dynamic equality constraints. An analytical approach is focused on throughout, as opposed to computational. The result is a book that emphasizes simplicity and practicability, which makes it accessible and engaging. This holds true in later chapters that involve orbital mechanics, two-body maneuvers, bounded inputs, and flight in non-spherical gravity fields.
The intended audience is primarily upper-undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers of aerospace, mechanical, and/or electrical engineering. It will be especially valuable to those with interests in spacecraft dynamics and control. Readers should be familiar with basic dynamics and modern control theory. Additionally, a knowledge of linear algebra, variational methods, and ordinary differential equations is recommended.
Reviews
“This book is designed to be used as a textbook in a course on optimal space flight at the graduate and senior undergraduate levels, but it is very useful also for all control scientists and control engineers.” (Clementina Mladenova, zbMath 1412.49002, 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimal Space Flight Navigation
Book Subtitle: An Analytical Approach
Authors: Ashish Tewari
Series Title: Control Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03789-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03788-8Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03789-5Published: 20 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2373-7719
Series E-ISSN: 2373-7727
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 65 illustrations in colour
Topics: Systems Theory, Control, Control and Systems Theory, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics