This Round Table will be held on 5th October.
Background
ESA/CNES/DLR/CIRA have teamed together to coordinate and set up a European working group sharing experience and advancing various important G&C technologies for future re-entry vehicles. ESA/CNES/DLR/CIRA jointly organize a first round table on Friday 5 October hosted at ESTEC inviting all the stakeholders from European agencies, industries and research to present the needs and challenges in European Re-entry Guidance and Control.
The outcome of this round table will serve the steering group ESA/CNES/DLR/CIRA to formulate the research perimeter of the working group. The content of the future research shall be formulated in a jointly drafted Working Group document that materializes the Guidance and Control needs and challenges into a joint research plan.
The Advanced Guidance & Control Technologies address issues related to systems modelling, control design, system analysis, simulation technology and validation and verification technologies.
This first round table aims at showing:
- why and what Advanced “Guidance &” Control Technologies are critical for meeting reliability needs for re-entry vehicles?
- how and what Advanced “Guidance &” Control Technologies are fundamental in keeping developmental costs manageable in the face of increasing performance and robustness needs must be evidenced?
Short term objectives are thought to respond to the direct needs in re-entry Guidance and Control technology and to bridge gap between research and industry. First the problems relevant and specific to Re-entry Guidance and Control have to be formulated. Second, relevant robust and efficient Advanced Guidance & Control Technologies responding to re-entry needs are proposed. This includes the explanation of the Methodological features of Advanced Guidance & Control methods. Furthermore, recent modelling, analysis, control design and verification concepts are detailed for an evolving re-entry Guidance and Control system design. Long term objectives are formulated revealing issues of future Guidance & Control technologies. These can be related to on board autonomy, fault tolerance in the view of on-line reconfigurable Guidance & Control technologies.
Objectives
Presentations will be given from Agencies, Industries, Research and Academia reflecting the system and process needs and possibilities provided by the novel Advanced Guidance and Control Technologies.
Agencies, Industries, Research and Academia are invited to give presentations responding where possible to the following areas:
- Exposition of the current background and experience in re-entry guidance and control solutions
- Exposition of problems areas, limitations and needs of current processes in the view of new re-entry systems and challenges. Description of current processes and tools.
- Exposition of current Guidance and Control design techniques and tools (modelling, analysis, design, simulation, V&V, visualisation, data management) is there room for improvement?.
- How and where to improve the link between industry and research.
- Areas of improvement illustrated by potential modelling, control and analysis processes and technologies that respond to future re-entry guidance and control needs. Improvements in the process as well as in the design.
- Current status and needs in re-entry modelling, control and guidance technology addressing the multivariable, parameter varying and uncertain nature of the re-entry control problem from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- The role of modelling, system identification (explain) techniques and uncertainty modelling.
- The modelling of specifications and determination of flying qualities for re-entry vehicles
- The role of the complexity, uncertainties, nonlinearities and parameter variation in the guidance and control development and validation processes.
- Implementation and numerical aspects related to advanced control technology, including online availability of control customized control functionalities.
- Developments and needs in simulation, validation and verification techniques including the issues related to worst case determination.
- Exposition of new Guidance and Control design tools (modelling, analysis, design, simulation, V&V, visualisation, data management).
- Proposition of generic re-entry vehicle (s) accessible to the entire working group to exhibit the Advanced Guidance & Control Technologies.
- Proposition of a set of specific Advanced Guidance & Control benchmark problems accessible to the entire working group to exhibit the Advanced Guidance & Control Technologies.
- Proposition of computational infrastructures/Tools accessible to the entire working group to exhibit the Advanced Guidance & Control Technologies (available to be developed).
- The way forward in guidance and control technology to improve the re-entry performance and improve the modelling, design, implementation and verification processes.
To make the announcement possible the contributors are asked to provide title of the presentation and an abstract. All the abstracts and presentations need to be sent by the 16th of September.
The round table aims at summarizing and collecting inputs from all participants. For the round table discussion at the end of the day, all participants and presenters are asked to provide a set of 4 summary slides reflecting the synthesis of the needs and challenges.
The organizing ESA/CNES/DLR/CIRA team will synthesize the outcome of all contributions in a final joint presentation to conclude the round table day.
For further details please refer to the respective contact the organisers
| Point of Contact Samir Bennani Organisation Christian Philippe Samir Bennani Benjamin Carpentier Arnaud Biard Cahuzac Francois Johann Bals Gertjan Looye Leopoldo Verde |
ESTEC ESTEC ESTEC CNES CNES CNES DLR DLR CIRA |
samir.bennani@esa.int christian.philippe@esa.int samir.bennani@esa.int benjamin.carpentier@cnes.fr Arnaud.Biard@exchange.cse.cnes.fr Francois.Cahuzac@exchange.cse.cnes.fr Johann.Bals@dlr.de Gertjan.Looye@dlr.de l.verde@cira.it |