Design of Guidance, Control and Simulation for Propulsive Landing of a Reusable Launch Vehicle Booster
2022 (English) Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Propulsive landing is one of the most promising technologies for reuse of orbital launch vehicles. This master thesis presents a concept of guidance and control systems for recovery of a first stage booster of a 1 ton to Low Earth Orbit capable launch vehicle. Two different trajectory scenarios were tested in a six degrees of freedom simulation environment which also included realistic wind disturbances. With a dispersed initial position, the rocket stage was able to land reliably within the landing pad constraints. When using realistic wind data, the probability of a successful landing decreased, and a wind speed constraint had to be imposed on the mission criteria.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 2022. , p. 63
Keywords [en]
Propulsive Landing, Powered Descent Guidance, Launch Vehicle Reusability, Guidance and Control, Convex Optimization, G-FOLD
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-92238 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-92238 DiVA, id: diva2:1684398
External cooperation
Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH
Subject / course Student thesis, at least 30 credits
Educational program Space Engineering, master's level
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-08-032022-07-252022-11-21 Bibliographically approved