Abstract:From a personal historical perspective, guidance, control, and navigation algorithms and their implementation into various classes of aerospace vehicles are described within the context of the prevalent system theoretic issues. This personal history is shown to be highly influenced by Charles Stark Draper, through his activities as Head of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and his Instrumentation Laboratory. The focus will be on the development of theory which led to actual flight tests or fielded sy… Show more
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