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Autonomous Upper Stage Guidance with Robust Splash-Down Constraint
Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli, Guido Colasurdo +2
This paper presents a novel algorithm, based on model predictive control (MPC), for the optimal guidance of a launch vehicle upper stage. The proposed strategy not only maximizes t…
Stochastic Control of Launch Vehicle Upper Stage with Minimum-Variance Splash-Down
Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli, Guido Colasurdo +2
This paper presents a novel synthesis method for designing an optimal and robust guidance law for a non-throttleable upper stage of a launch vehicle, using a convex approach. In th…
Convex Optimization of Launch Vehicle Ascent Trajectory with Heat-Flux and Splash-Down Constraints
Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli, Guido Colasurdo +2
This paper presents a convex programming approach to the optimization of a multistage launch vehicle ascent trajectory, from the liftoff to the payload injection into the target or…
EOS: a Parallel, Self-Adaptive, Multi-Population Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Global Optimization
Lorenzo Federici, Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli
This paper presents the main characteristics of the evolutionary optimization code named EOS, Evolutionary Optimization at Sapienza, and its successful application to challenging,…
Convex Optimization of Linear Impulsive Rendezvous
Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli
This note aims at providing a concise and self-contained document that describes a clear and easy-to-understand method, that could be useful for a reader that is approaching the li…
GTOC X: Solution Approach of Team Sapienza-PoliTo
Alessandro Zavoli, Lorenzo Federici, Boris Benedikter +2
This paper summarizes the solution approach and the numerical methods developed by the joint team Sapienza University of Rome and Politecnico di Torino (Team Sapienza-PoliTo) in th…
A Convex Optimization Approach for Finite-Thrust Time-Constrained Cooperative Rendezvous
Boris Benedikter, Alessandro Zavoli, Guido Colasurdo
This paper presents a convex approach to the optimization of a cooperative rendezvous, that is, the problem of two distant spacecraft that simultaneously operate to get closer. Con…