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I. Michael Ross

In 2010, Ross was elected a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society for "his pioneering contributions to the theory, software and flight demonstration of pseudospectral optimal control." He also received (jointly with Fariba Fahroo), the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award for "fundamentally changing the landscape of flight mechanics".

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When discretization is commutative with dualization, then, under appropriate conditions, Pontryagin's minimum principle emerges as a consequence of the convergence of the discretization.

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Together with F. Fahroo, W. Kang and Q. Gong, Ross proved a series of results on the convergence of pseudospectral discretizations of optimal control problems.

Michael Ross

I. Michael Ross, American innovator and founder of pseudospectral optimal control theory

Trajectory optimization

Direct and indirect methods can be blended by an application of the covector mapping principle of Ross and Fahroo.

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