Note: This post is adapted from my conference paper, which was presented at the Astrodynamics Specialists Conference in Summer 2020. You can read the full paper here. Abstract – Designing Trajectories Resilient to Missed Thrust Events Using Expected Thrust Fraction With the adoption of efficient low-thrust propulsion methods, the probability of a missed thrust event occurring has…
Disclaimer: Plotly paid me to both make a dash app, as well as this post. Even before this I was a fan of Plotly’s products and used them in posts about missed thrust events and visualizing periodic orbits. In those projects, I used Plotly because they make some great visualization tools. You should check their…
Intro Last year we had a 2 part series on how to land on the moon using a suicide burn. There, the condition was that we could only turn on the engine once, and it had to be fully throttled. But most landers can control their thrust, so in this post we’re going to go…
A few weeks ago I attended the 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference (ASC). This was my first major academic conference in grad school and I was there presenting on my research on using neural networks for optimal control with a special focus on their resilience to missed thrust events. Where Was I? The Astrodynamics Specialist…
Inverted Pendulum Recap In this post, we’re going to talk a little about how to balance an inverted pendulum on a cart. This is the second post in a 3 part series about balancing an inverted pendulum Part 1 – Balancing an inverted pendulum Part 2 – Swing-Up of an Inverted Pendulum on a Cart…
