Joffre, Eric

Marcos, Andres

Richardson, Barbara

Silva, Nuno

Simplicio, Pedro V M

Zamaro, Mattia

While common Descent and Landing strategies involve extended periods of forced motion, significant fuel savings could be achieved by exploiting the natural dynamics in the vicinity of the target. However, small bodies are characterised by perturbed and poorly known dynamics environments, calling for autonomous guidance, navigation and robust control. Airbus and the University of Bristol have been contracted by the UKSA to investigate the optimisation of landing trajectories,including novel approaches from dynamical systems theory, and robust control techniques. This paper presents these techniques with an application to the strategic case of a mission to Phobos

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Results of new guidance and control strategies for landing on small bodies

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Results of new guidance and control strategies for landing on small bodies

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