“Ridiculously well-designed rockets”, not to mention some seriously awesome Mathematics

Posted on 16 March 2019 by ecoquant

I’m just amazed with the quality of their controls systems, understated in the video, but which are absolutely critical to success.

For more technical details, see:

B. Açıkmeşe, J. M. Carson III, L. Blackmore, “Lossless convexification of nonconvex control bound and pointing constraints of the soft landing optimal control problem“, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 21(6), November 2013.

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See https://wordpress.com/view/667-per-cm.net/ Retired data scientist and statistician. Now working projects in quantitative ecology and, specifically, phenology of Bryophyta and technical methods for their study, notably Macrophotography. Some photos of mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/198372469@N03/
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