Minimum time thrust start-up of a nuclear rocket with integro-differential constraints

• Published in: Automatica (Oxford) Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 153 - 161
• Main Authors: Pym, J.W., Shen, C.N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.01.1972

The minimum time thrust start-up of a nuclear rocket gives rise to an optimal control problem where the state representing the exhaust propellant must satisfy an integro-differential equation and an inequality constraint. It is shown that by defining an appropriate Hamiltonian function, Pontryagin&#...