钱学森1952年论文Automatic Navigation of a Long Range Vehicle.pdfVIP

(Reprintedfrom Journal of the American Rocket Society, July-August, 1952) Copyright, 1952, by the American Rocket Society, Inc., and reprinted by permission of copyright owner. Automatic Navigation of a Long Range Rocket Vehicle H. S. TSIEN,l T. C. ADAMSON,2 and E. L. KNUTH2 Daniel and Florence GuggenheillI Jet Propulsion Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. The flight of a rocket vehicle in the equatorial plane of a tories described by equations with time-varying coef- rotating earth is considered with possible disturbances in ficients. His theory is based upon the method of the atllIosphere due to changes in density, in tellIperature, adjoint functions, first introduced by G. A. Bliss (3) and in wind speed. These atllIospheric disturbances to- gether with possible deviations in weight and in 1lI01lIent during W orld War I. The purpose of the present paper of inertia of the vehicle tend to change the flight path away is to make Drenick's theory more complete and definite frollI the norllIal flight path. The paper gives the condi- and to apply it to the problem of automatic navigation tion for the proper cut-off tillIe for the rocket power, and of a long-range winged rocket vehicle. A system of con- the proper corrections in the elevator angle so that the trol involving a fast computer is suggested, whereby the vehicle will land at the chosen destination i