(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-05)
Johnson, Eric N.; Calise, Anthony J.; Curry, Michael D.
Guidance and control technology is recognized as an important aspect of the military, civil, and commercial
goal of reliable, low-cost, aircraft-type operations into space. Here, several guidance and control methods are
extended to enable integration into a single fully adaptive guidance and control system that offers a high degree
of mission flexibility, fault tolerance, and autonomy. This paper summarizes the guidance and control system and
several research issues related to use of adaptive guidance and control in reusable launch vehicles. Results that
demonstrate the ability of the integrated system to plan and fly abort trajectories are also presented.