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Elffers, P.A. (author), Caroselli, Edoardo (author), van Kampen, E. (author), Mooij, E. (author)This paper investigates the performance of an autonomous navigation system to navigate a spacecraft in the proximity of a binary asteroid system using optical and laser ranging measurements. The knowledge about the binary asteroid is limited to its orbital parameters and ellipsoid shape models. The accelerometer bias random walk is included in...conference paper 2024
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Çavdar, I. (author), Mooij, E. (author)Within the last decade, the use of launch vehicles has increased as private companies have emerged in the space exploration industry. Compared to the early 1980s, the market for launch vehicles has become significantly more competitive, introducing the desire to have fully reusable launch vehicles. The true benefits of fully reusable launch...conference paper 2024
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Agante de Carvalho, J.R. (author), Mooij, E. (author)This research performs a surrogate-assisted shape optimisation of hypersonic waveriders, where the trajectories of each shape are optimised with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for heat-load and cross-range. A study on the best evolutionary algorithm, node control strategy for angle of attack and bank angle profiles, and population size...conference paper 2024
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Mooij, E. (author), Root, B.C. (author)With the increasing interest in the Solar System's smaller bodies, quite a few missions have been sent to comets and asteroids, and more will be send in the near future. Due to the large distances involved, communication to command mission parameters takes a long time, which has a negative impact on operational safety. Autonomous navigation...conference paper 2024
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Mooij, E. (author)To limit the mass of the vehicle's thermal protection system, an optimal trajectory that minimises the total integrated heat load should be flown. This means that the maximum heat-flux constraint is followed for as long as possible, until the maximum mechanical load is encountered. Flying as close to this load as possible contributes to...conference paper 2023
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Mooij, E. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)This paper focuses on the attitude control and propellant slosh suppression of aeroelastic launch vehicles in a turbulent atmosphere. For a five-degree pitch-angle block command, the tracking performance of the selected Incremental Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion Sliding Mode Controller (INDI-SMC) shows excellent tracking performance. However,...conference paper 2023
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Anton, S.V. (author), Rapisarda, C. (author), Ross, O.J. (author), Mooij, E. (author)Parachute/flow interaction is dominant in evaluating a decelerator’s performance. Such interaction is characterized by nonlinear deformations and complex flow phenomena. While testing methods are available to investigate parachute performance, these are often costly and nonrepresentative of the desired flight conditions. To address the need for...journal article 2023
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Mooij, E. (author)Attitude control of conventional launchers is relatively easy and straightforward and gives an adequate performance when applied to the nominal vehicle and mission. However, in the presence of environmental disturbances and vehicle design uncertainties, more robust types of controllers are required to guarantee stable attitudes. This chapter...book chapter 2023
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Bislip, Carlos (author), Mooij, E. (author)Objects travelling at hypersonic speeds typically experience significant mechanical loads, particularly during acceleration/deceleration. Excluding both technical and economic limitations, sub-orbital point-to-point travel is inevitably restricted to a group of individuals that are trained and whose health is certified prior to travel. This...book chapter 2023
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Brchnelová, M. (author), Mooij, E. (author)The beginning of the conceptual design phase of (re)entry missions requires aerodynamic methods to reduce the initial design space. For this purpose, full computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are unsuitable due to their computational requirements. Rapid hypersonic methods are thus often employed to approximate the heat flux and skin...conference paper 2022
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Bessette, Emilie (author), Mooij, E. (author), Stam, D.M. (author)We present a 3 Degrees of Freedom mission design and analysis for in-situ probing of Uranus' atmosphere consisting of two un-propelled gliders and one orbiting spacecraft in continuous line of sight. We focus on the study of the gliders' navigation and science modules. Because of the lack of a Global Navigation Satellite System around Uranus and...conference paper 2022
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Dominguez Calabuig, G.J. (author), Mooij, E. (author)Space safety and hazard-reduction techniques for space-transportation vehicles are becoming critical in the advent of commercial crewed launches and suborbital intercontinental travel. One way to mitigate risks is to use advanced guidance strategies to centralise mission planning, and guidance, navigation and control. Convex optimisation can be...conference paper 2021
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Mooij, E. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)This paper focuses on the attitude control and propellant slosh suppression of aeroelastic launch vehicles. Four candidate controllers are proposed: the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), the Incremental Non-linear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) control, the Incremental Sliding Mode Control (INDI-SMC), and the Feedback Linearisation-based Sliding Mode...conference paper 2021
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Zucchelli, E.M. (author), Hanasusanto, Grani A. (author), Brandon-Jones, A. (author), Mooij, E. (author)This paper proposes a two-stage optimization approach for aerocapture guidance. In classical entry guidance systems, deterministic optimization is used. Large-scale and short-scale density perturbations may strongly affect the performance of the guidance system, and variations in those are usually not accounted for when computing the command. In...conference paper 2021
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Mazouz, Rayan (author), Quadrelli, Marco B. (author), Mooij, E. (author)Precision landing is an anticipated technology for future interplanetary missions. Autonomous spacecraft Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) on the surface of a planetary body with a degree of precision in the order of meters is highly challenging. In this paper, a successive convexification guidance algorithm is utilized to simulate autonomous...conference paper 2021
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Brchnelová, M. (author), Mooij, E. (author)Re-entry shape and trajectory optimisation studies typically require hundreds to thousands of flow solutions to resolve the heat transfer and skin friction. Due to the fact that full CFD simulations and even Euler simulations are typically very expensive, this work presents a development of a much simpler technique, in which the modified...conference paper 2021
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Geul, J. (author), Mooij, E. (author), Noomen, R. (author)Verified interval orbit propagation provides mathematically guaranteed solutions of satellite position and velocity over time. These verified solutions are useful for conjunction analysis and other space-situational-awareness activities. Unfortunately, verified methods suffer from overestimation and explosive interval growth, limiting the...journal article 2021
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Acciarini, Giacomo (author), Izzo, Dario (author), Mooij, E. (author)In this paper, we combine the concepts of hyper-volume, ant colony optimization and nondominated sorting to develop a novel multi-objective ant colony optimizer for global space trajectory optimization. In particular, this algorithm is first tested on three space trajectory bi-objective test problems: an Earth-Mars transfer, an Earth-Venus...conference paper 2020
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Engelsma, Jorrik (author), Mooij, E. (author)By simulating full lift-up and full lift-down trajectories, the limit initial conditions for which successful aerocapture is possible have been determined. These boundaries form the entry corridor for aerocapture, and have been developed for Earth, Mars, and Venus. Moreover, two different vehicles representative for either manned missions or...conference paper 2020
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Mooij, E. (author)Long and slender bodies, such as (small) conventional launch systems, may suffer from an unwanted coupling between the rigid body and its flexible modes. The current research treats the launch vehicle as a flexible beam with lumped masses to account for the subsystems and fuel, using a three-dimensional assumed-modes method with longitudinal and...conference paper 2020