Method to Guide the Concretization of Costs and Benefits in Service-Dominant Business Models

Optimal linear-quadratic missile guidance laws with penalty on command variability

This paper proposes a new approach to the derivation of homing guidance laws for interceptor missiles that makes use of linear-quadratic optimal control in a different manner than the traditional approaches. Instead of looking only for the minimization of the miss distance and the integral square of the guidance command, the new criterion...

Feasibility study for the development of a pyro starter

Pyro starters can play a role as turbopump starter in liquid propellant propulsion systems by supplying pressurized gas to power turbines for engine start up. For such a purpose, the pyro starters supply a flow of combustion gases with a relatively low flame temperature to the turbines. A feasibility study on the design of a pyro starter for a...

Optimal control and design of a cold store using dynamic optimization

The design of controlled processes is a combined optimal control and design problem (OCDP). Literature on solving large OCDPs is rare. This paper presents an algorithm for solving large OCDPs. For this algorithm system dynamics, objective function and their first-order derivatives must be continuous in the state, control and design parameters....