Quantifying the Impact of Advanced Control Strategies on Rocket Propelled Spacecrafts

Institut

Lehrstuhl für Raumfahrtantriebe (TUM-ED)

Typ

Bachelorarbeit / Semesterarbeit / Masterarbeit /

Inhalt

theoretisch /  

Beschreibung

Background

The space industry is undergoing a structural transition towards reusable rocket systems. Increased operational lifetime, aggressive flight profiles and propulsive landing significantly raise the demands on propulsion, guidance and control. At the same time, remote missions to mars and other celestial bodies require exceptional reliability. Recent failures such as Roscosmos’s Luna-25 crash, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 landing failure and anomalies during SpaceX Starship test flights illustrate that propulsion and control remain mission-critical subsystems.

Future rocket-propelled vehicles must therefore combine performance, agility and robustness. This requires advanced control strategies such as fault-tolerant architectures, adaptive control to handle degradation, lifetime-aware operation to reduce structural and thermal loads, and robust nonlinear tracking under strict constraints.

While these approaches are widely discussed, their quantitative impact on mission-level metrics (reliability, availability, propellant consumption, cost) has not yet been systematically evaluated.

 

Objective

The objective of this project is to quantify the impact of advanced control strategies on reusable, autonomous rocket systems.

To address this question, a modular simulation framework will be developed as a team effort involving multiple student theses.

 

Scope and additional information

Please check the task description attached for further information on the scope, the candidate profile and what we offer :)

Möglicher Beginn

sofort

Kontakt

Felix Ebert
felix.eberttum.de

Ausschreibung