A CONTROL STRATEGY FOR THE POWERED LANDING OF A REUSABLE ROCKET BOOSTER

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2023-1

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Elsherbiny, Amr Mohamed Abdeltawab Eladl

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The space rockets’ benefits are numerous. No commercially available method for sending manned or unmanned payloads into space except the traditional poweredfueled rockets. However, the harmful impacts of these rockets became significant with the need to increase the payloads delivered into space. The impacts start from leaving the rocket boosters as garbage in the Earth’s orbit, falling uncontrollably onto the Earth, exposing its remnant toxic fuel to the Earth, and wasting the rocket’s materials without recycling. Recently, the topic of reusing rocket boosters has become achievable, with some drawbacks usually happening during the landing stage. This work aims to design a control strategy for controlling the final landing stage for different scenarios. A nonlinear model of a booster was developed and verified. PID, MPC, and LQR strategies are proposed for this purpose and compared for their efficiency in safely landing the booster and fuel consumption.

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Vertical landing, LQR, MPC, PID, Sustainability, Optimal

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109135

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Northern Cyprus Campus, Thesis