Guidance and control - II [[electronic resource] ] : a selection of technical papers based mainly on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Guidance and Control Conference held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 12-14, 1963 / / edited by Robert C. Langford, Charles J. Mundo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457232603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Academic Press, 1964
• ISBN: 1-60086-487-2; 1-60086-268-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1013 p.)
• Collana: Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 13
• Altri autori (Persone): LangfordRobert C; MundoCharles J
• Soggetti: Space vehicles - Guidance systems; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""The Guidance and Control Committee""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""I. Active and Passive Attitude Control for Space Vehicles""; ""An Introduction to Section on Attitude Control""; ""Current Status of Progress in Attitude Control""; ""A System for Passive Gravity-Gradient Stabilization of Earth Satellites""; ""Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Solar Pressure Attitude Control for Interplanetary Spacecraft""; ""Control Moment Gyro Gravity Stabilization""; ""Applications of Gyro stabilizers to Satellite Attitude Control""; ""Integral Pulse Frequency On-Off Control""""A Time Optimal Attitude Control System Designed to Overcome Certain Sensor Imperfections""; ""Two-Pulse Attitude Control of an Asymmetric Spinning Satellite""; ""Bank Angle Control System for a Spinning Satellite""; ""Several Linear Stabilization and Reorientation Control System Configurations for a Rotating, Manned Orbital Space Station""; ""II. Inertial Guidance for Space Flight""; ""Drift of a Stable Platform Caused by Gyro Rotor Unbalance""; ""Stellar Alignment of a Gyroscopically Stabilized Platform during Free-Fall""; ""Navigation and Guidance Systems Employing a Gimballess IMU""""Rigid Body Dynamics - Stable Platform Isolation Systems""; ""Interrogation of Spherical-Rotor Free Gyros""; ""III. Onboard Techniques for Interplanetary Flight""; ""Background and Requirements on Radar Sensors for Spacecraft""; ""Stellar Techniques for Midcourse Navigation Guidance""; ""Infrared Horizon Sensor Techniques for Lunar and Planetary Approaches""; ""Novel Solar System Compasses for Interplanetary Flight""; ""IV. Manned Control of Space Vehicles""; ""Pilot-Vehicle Control System Analysis""; ""A Survey of the Development of Models for the Human Controller""""Some Predictive Characteristics of the Human Controller""; ""V. Deep Space Guidance and Navigation""; ""Discussion of Guidance Policies for Multiple-Impulse Correction of the Trajectory of a Spacecraft""; ""A Class of Unified Explicit Methods for Steering Throttle able and Fixed-Thrust Rockets""; ""New Investigations in the Field of Error Propagation""; ""Theory of Error Compensation in Astro-Inertial Guidance Systems for Low-Thrust Space Missions""; ""Statistical Filtering of Space Navigation Measurements""; ""VI. Rendezvous""""Survey of Rendezvous Progress""; ""Fuel Optimization in Orbital Rendezvous""; ""Guidance System Complexity vs Fuel Consumption for Midcourse Correction of Rendezvous""; ""Application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Problem""; ""Guidance Dynamics for the Terminal Phase of Rendezvous""; ""VII. Re-Entry and Landing""; ""A Look at the Re-Entry Problem""; ""A Simple Re-Entry Guidance System""; ""A Minimum Fuel Vertical Touchdown Lunar Landing Guidance Technique""; ""Contributors to Volume 13""