Bifurcation-Based Guidance Law for Powered Descent Landing
Systems and Control
2025-11-25 v1 Systems and Control
Abstract
This paper develops a new guidance law for powered descent landing of a rocket-powered vehicle. The proposed law derives the acceleration command for a point mass model of the vehicle by expressing velocity as a dynamical system undergoing supercritical transcritical bifurcation with three bifurcation parameters. The parameters are designed such that the stable equilibrium points of the velocity dynamics correspond to the guided targeting state, that is, the landing point. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate the working of the proposed guidance law.
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@article{arxiv.2511.18603,
title = {Bifurcation-Based Guidance Law for Powered Descent Landing},
author = {Neon Srinivasu and Amit Shivam and Nobin Paul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18603},
year = {2025}
}