Control of an Underactuated Reusable Launch Vehicle by Partial Feedback Linearization

The control issue of an underactuated reusable launch vehicle (RLV) involving nonminimum phase problem is considered in this paper. The considered RLV system has more outputs than the available inputs, preventing it from fully feedback linearization by traditional dynamic inversion or backstepping methods. To address this issue, an approach combining backstepping and partial feedback linearization...