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SUMMARY:Where’s my rocket? – Stochastic simulations of rocket flight p
 aths - Simon Box\, Microsoft Research
DTSTART:20061212T150000Z
DTEND:20061212T160000Z
UID:TALK6026@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Oliver Williams
DESCRIPTION:The goal of the research was to produce software which will ma
 ke stochastic six degree of freedom simulations of flight path and recover
 y of small\, passively controlled\, high power rockets. The software can b
 e used to model a single rocket trajectory or run using the Monte Carlo me
 thod while perturbing uncertain input variables\, which include the aerody
 namic coefficients of the rocket and the wind profile data. The latter met
 hod results in a splashdown pattern marking the rockets probable landing z
 one. This information may allow researchers to fly passively controlled ro
 ckets to higher altitudes in more populous areas more safely. The presenta
 tion gives an in depth description of the workings of the software and the
  theory behind it as well as presenting results of validation using real f
 lights. 
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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