“…The first guided entry on Mars will be attempted by the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 6 , which was launched on November 2011, and is planned to reach Mars in the early August 2012. Several techniques 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 have been proposed for improving the performance of the guided entry control. According to Kluever 7 , the approaches can be broadly separated into two methodologies: 1) reference-path tracking and 2) path-planning algorithms.…”