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Rocket landing optimization using gurobi

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Rocket control

Everyone thinks they can land a rocket, it's not brain surgery.

But can you land as well as a gurobi optimizer?

Play this game to find out!

Demo

Manually control the rocket with the arrow keys.

Manual play

Press space to start the optimization MAGIC (the rocket will become blue when it's automatically controlled)

Easy landing

It can even do hard landings

Meet with your eye doctor

The wind and air resistance can be used for advanced techniques like air braking

Seriously do

Acknowledgements

  • John's mom for providing us with a boat to program on
  • Chat GPT for basically writing the entire thing
  • John Rapp Farnes & Simon Halvdansson for their amazing contributions
  • Norwegian oil for providing academic licence to Gurobi
  • @Vista Wei at unsplash for the sick ass image