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Launcher Attitude Control based on Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion: A Feasibility Study Towards Fast and Robust Design Approaches
Pedro Simplício, Paul Acquatella, Samir Bennani
The so-called ``New Space era'' has seen a disruptive change in the business models and manufacturing technologies of launch vehicle companies. However, limited consideration has b…
Robust Optimal Control for Nonlinear Systems with Parametric Uncertainties via System Level Synthesis
Antoine P. Leeman, Jerome Sieber, Samir Bennani +1
This paper addresses the problem of optimally controlling nonlinear systems with norm-bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainties while robustly satisfying constraints. The p…
Robust Nonlinear Optimal Control via System Level Synthesis
Antoine P. Leeman, Johannes Köhler, Andrea Zanelli +2
This paper addresses the problem of finite horizon constrained robust optimal control for nonlinear systems subject to norm-bounded disturbances. To this end, the underlying uncert…
Predictive safety filter using system level synthesis
Antoine P. Leeman, Johannes Köhler, Samir Benanni +1
Safety filters provide modular techniques to augment potentially unsafe control inputs (e.g. from learning-based controllers or humans) with safety guarantees in the form of constr…
Asynchronous Computation of Tube-based Model Predictive Control
Jerome Sieber, Andrea Zanelli, Antoine P. Leeman +2
Tube-based model predictive control (MPC) methods bound deviations from a nominal trajectory due to uncertainties in order to ensure constraint satisfaction. While techniques that…
Reconfiguration of a satellite constellation in circular formation orbit with decentralized model predictive control
Tomas Pippia, Valentin Preda, Samir Bennani +1
Satellite constellation missions, consisting of a large number of spacecraft, are increasingly being launched or planned. Such missions require novel control approaches, in particu…
Finite Horizon Worst-Case Analysis of Linear Time-Varying Systems Applied to Launch Vehicle
Felix Biertümpfel, Nantiwat Pholdee, Samir Bennani +1
This paper presents an approach to compute the worst-case gain of the interconnection of a finite time horizon linear time-variant system and a perturbation. The input/output behav…
System Level Disturbance Reachable Sets and their Application to Tube-based MPC
Jerome Sieber, Andrea Zanelli, Samir Bennani +1
Tube-based model predictive control (MPC) methods leverage tubes to bound deviations from a nominal trajectory due to uncertainties in order to ensure constraint satisfaction. This…
Optimal Science-time Reorientation Policy for the Comet Interceptor Flyby via Sequential Convex Programming
Valentin Preda, Andrew Hyslop, Samir Bennani
This paper introduces an algorithm to perform optimal reorientation of a spacecraft during a high speed flyby mission that maximizes the time a certain target is kept within the fi…
Autonomous parafoil precision landing using convex real-time optimized guidance and control
Antoine Leeman, Valentin Preda, Irene Huertas +1
To overcome the limitations of current parafoil precision landing capabilities, an efficient real-time convex optimized guidance and control strategy is presented. Successive conve…
A System Level Approach to Tube-based Model Predictive Control
Jerome Sieber, Samir Bennani, Melanie N. Zeilinger
Robust tube-based model predictive control (MPC) methods address constraint satisfaction by leveraging an a priori determined tube controller in the prediction to tighten the const…
Model Based Active Slosh Damping Experiment
Christina Jetzschmann, Hans Strauch, Samir Bennani
This paper presents a model based experimental investigation to demonstrate the usefulness of an active damping strategy to manage fluid sloshing motion in spacecraft tanks. The ac…
Model Based Desgin Environment for Launcher Upper Stage GNC Development
Hans Strauch, Klaus Luig, Samir Bennani
The cost associated with developing flight control forms a significant part of the overall development cost. The increased demand for greater functionality and for extending the do…
Comparison of surrogate-based uncertainty quantification methods for computationally expensive simulators
N. E. Owen, P. Challenor, P. P. Menon +1
Polynomial chaos and Gaussian process emulation are methods for surrogate-based uncertainty quantification, and have been developed independently in their respective communities ov…
Measures and LMI for space launcher robust control validation
Didier Henrion, Martine Ganet-Schoeller, Samir Bennani
We describe a new temporal verification framework for safety and robustness analysis of nonlinear control laws, our target application being a space launcher vehicle. Robustness an…