4027 Study on Optimal Pull-up Maneuver of Balloon-based Micro-gravity Experimental Vehicle
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JAXA is developing the balloon-based operation vehicle as a new one of the micro-gravity experimental devices. The vehicle makes relative micro-gravity environment inside the body by free-fall from the stratosphere with the balloon. Now, the vehicle is carried above the sea with balloon and falls straight. Therefore, there is the serious problem that the airflow dominate a go or no-go decision of the experiment. To solve this problem, the optimal control law that maneuver the vehicle to pull-up to fly horizontally after the free-fall and then guides over the sea will be designed. This paper discussed about the difference of the maximum horizontal distance on the timing of pull-up.
