I must be half asleep, I was expecting some novel machine learning algorithm. I was pleasantly surprised to find a spaceflight algorthim instead.

I am completely out of my depth, so have nothing constructive to add. But it sounds interesting.

This is the algorithm SpaceX uses to catch rockets. If you watch any of the landings/chopstick catches, you’ll notice that they don’t seem to oscillate back and forth like a lot of control systems we’re “used to” seeing.

This algorithm is why! Super cool.