The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Frederick Wall Boelitz

Leena Singh

Christopher Michael Gibson

Andrew Allen Martin

Stephen Randolph Smith, Jr

Piero Miotto

A load relief system for a launch vehicle including a wind sensing system responsive to wind speed and direction at selected locations for providing an output of sensed wind speed and wind direction at the selected locations, a plant model responsive to the sensed wind speed and direction within a finite horizon, a current state of the launch vehicle, and control commands of the launch vehicle to predict the trajectory of the launch vehicle, an error circuit responsive to the predicted trajectory and a reference trajectory to produce a trajectory error, and an optimizer responsive to the trajectory error and configured to provide control commands to compensate for wind load over the finite horizon of the launch vehicle by reducing the total angle of attack.

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Medford, MA, United States of America

Frederick Wall Boelitz