Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization

Author : Bruce A. Conway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139490771

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Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization by Bruce A. Conway Pdf

This is a long-overdue volume dedicated to space trajectory optimization. Interest in the subject has grown, as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication, complexity, and scientific return - hardly imaginable in the 1960s - have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimization theory remain an accepted canon, there has been a revolution in the manner in which they are applied and in the development of numerical optimization. This volume purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The choice of authors has been guided by the editor's intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialities presented. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this may yield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also yields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.

Author : Bruce A. Conway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1107653827

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Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization by Bruce A. Conway Pdf

This is a long-overdue volume dedicated to space trajectory optimization. Interest in the subject has grown, as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication, complexity, and scientific return - hardly imaginable in the 1960s - have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimization theory remain an accepted canon, there has been a revolution in the manner in which they are applied and in the development of numerical optimization. This volume purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The choice of authors has been guided by the editor's intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialties presented. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this may yield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also yields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevant to contemporary problems.

Author : Runqi Chai,Al Savvaris,Antonios Tsourdos,Senchun Chai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811398452

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Design of Trajectory Optimization Approach for Space Maneuver Vehicle Skip Entry Problems by Runqi Chai,Al Savvaris,Antonios Tsourdos,Senchun Chai Pdf

This book explores the design of optimal trajectories for space maneuver vehicles (SMVs) using optimal control-based techniques. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to and overview of three main approaches to trajectory optimization, and subsequently focuses on the design of a novel hybrid optimization strategy that combines an initial guess generator with an improved gradient-based inner optimizer. Further, it highlights the development of multi-objective spacecraft trajectory optimization problems, with a particular focus on multi-objective transcription methods and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. In its final sections, the book studies spacecraft flight scenarios with noise-perturbed dynamics and probabilistic constraints, and designs and validates new chance-constrained optimal control frameworks. The comprehensive and systematic treatment of practical issues in spacecraft trajectory optimization is one of the book’s major features, making it particularly suited for readers who are seeking practical solutions in spacecraft trajectory optimization. It offers a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in GNC systems, engineering optimization, applied optimal control theory, etc.

Author : John E. Prussing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198811084

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Optimal Spacecraft Trajectories by John E. Prussing Pdf

This graduate textbook on optimal spacecraft trajectories demonstrates the theory and applications of using the minimum amount of propellant possible to reach a target destination. The author aims to produce the only comprehensive treatment of various aspects of this topic. It includes problems at the ends of the chapters and some of the appendices. But it is also suitable as a scholarly reference book as it includes recent research from the author and his colleagues.

Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722945303

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Analytical Investigations in Aircraft and Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization and Optimal Guidance by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Pdf

A collection of analytical studies is presented related to unconstrained and constrained aircraft (a/c) energy-state modeling and to spacecraft (s/c) motion under continuous thrust. With regard to a/c unconstrained energy-state modeling, the physical origin of the singular perturbation parameter that accounts for the observed 2-time-scale behavior of a/c during energy climbs is identified and explained. With regard to the constrained energy-state modeling, optimal control problems are studied involving active state-variable inequality constraints. Departing from the practical deficiencies of the control programs for such problems that result from the traditional formulations, a complete reformulation is proposed for these problems which, in contrast to the old formulation, will presumably lead to practically useful controllers that can track an inequality constraint boundary asymptotically, and even in the presence of 2-sided perturbations about it. Finally, with regard to s/c motion under continuous thrust, a thrust program is proposed for which the equations of 2-dimensional motion of a space vehicle in orbit, viewed as a point mass, afford an exact analytic solution. The thrust program arises under the assumption of tangential thrust from the costate system corresponding to minimum-fuel, power-limited, coplanar transfers between two arbitrary conics. The thrust program can be used not only with power-limited propulsion systems, but also with any propulsion system capable of generating continuous thrust of controllable magnitude, and, for propulsion types and classes of transfers for which it is sufficiently optimal the results of this report suggest a method of maneuvering during planetocentric or heliocentric orbital operations, requiring a minimum amount of computation; thus uniquely suitable for real-time feedback guidance implementations. Markopoulos, Nikos and Calise, Anthony J. Unspecified Center AIRCRAFT GUIDANCE; CONTROLLERS; FLIGHT PATHS; OPTIMAL CONTROL...

Author : Nikos Markopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : NASA:31769000517212

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Analytical Investigations in Aircraft and Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization and Optimal Guidance by Nikos Markopoulos Pdf

Author : James M Longuski,José J. Guzmán,John E. Prussing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461489450

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Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications by James M Longuski,José J. Guzmán,John E. Prussing Pdf

Want to know not just what makes rockets go up but how to do it optimally? Optimal control theory has become such an important field in aerospace engineering that no graduate student or practicing engineer can afford to be without a working knowledge of it. This is the first book that begins from scratch to teach the reader the basic principles of the calculus of variations, develop the necessary conditions step-by-step, and introduce the elementary computational techniques of optimal control. This book, with problems and an online solution manual, provides the graduate-level reader with enough introductory knowledge so that he or she can not only read the literature and study the next level textbook but can also apply the theory to find optimal solutions in practice. No more is needed than the usual background of an undergraduate engineering, science, or mathematics program: namely calculus, differential equations, and numerical integration. Although finding optimal solutions for these problems is a complex process involving the calculus of variations, the authors carefully lay out step-by-step the most important theorems and concepts. Numerous examples are worked to demonstrate how to apply the theories to everything from classical problems (e.g., crossing a river in minimum time) to engineering problems (e.g., minimum-fuel launch of a satellite). Throughout the book use is made of the time-optimal launch of a satellite into orbit as an important case study with detailed analysis of two examples: launch from the Moon and launch from Earth. For launching into the field of optimal solutions, look no further!

Author : Derek F. Lawden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Calculus of variations
ISBN : WISC:89045787264

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Optimal Trajectories for Space Navigation by Derek F. Lawden Pdf

Author : Hans-Joachim Bungartz,Franz Durst,Christoph Zenger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022169507

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High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing by Hans-Joachim Bungartz,Franz Durst,Christoph Zenger Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on high performance scientific and engineering computing held in Munich in March 1998 and organized by FORTWIHR, the Bavarian Consortium for High Performance Scientific Computing. The 38 contributions cover engineering applications for numerical simulation from the fields fluid flow, optimal control, crystal growth and semiconductor technology, as well as numerical simulation in astrophysics or quantum chemistry. In contrast to related collections, the reader gets a really interdisciplinary spectrum of the state of the art of selected topics of scientific computing with recent results of research groups from applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and chemistry.

Author : Anton H. de Ruiter,Christopher Damaren,James R. Forbes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118403327

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Spacecraft Dynamics and Control by Anton H. de Ruiter,Christopher Damaren,James R. Forbes Pdf

Provides the basics of spacecraft orbital dynamics plus attitude dynamics and control, using vectrix notation Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: An Introduction presents the fundamentals of classical control in the context of spacecraft attitude control. This approach is particularly beneficial for the training of students in both of the subjects of classical control as well as its application to spacecraft attitude control. By using a physical system (a spacecraft) that the reader can visualize (rather than arbitrary transfer functions), it is easier to grasp the motivation for why topics in control theory are important, as well as the theory behind them. The entire treatment of both orbital and attitude dynamics makes use of vectrix notation, which is a tool that allows the user to write down any vector equation of motion without consideration of a reference frame. This is particularly suited to the treatment of multiple reference frames. Vectrix notation also makes a very clear distinction between a physical vector and its coordinate representation in a reference frame. This is very important in spacecraft dynamics and control problems, where often multiple coordinate representations are used (in different reference frames) for the same physical vector. Provides an accessible, practical aid for teaching and self-study with a layout enabling a fundamental understanding of the subject Fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an analytical toolbox offering the reader a lasting, rigorous methodology for approaching vector mechanics, a key element vital to new graduates and practicing engineers alike Delivers an outstanding resource for aerospace engineering students, and all those involved in the technical aspects of design and engineering in the space sector Contains numerous illustrations to accompany the written text. Problems are included to apply and extend the material in each chapter Essential reading for graduate level aerospace engineering students, aerospace professionals, researchers and engineers.

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319789163

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Planetary Spacecraft Navigation by James Miller Pdf

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation. Written by a former member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation team, it delves into the mathematics behind modern digital navigation programs, as well as the numerous technological resources used by JPL as a key player in the field. In addition, the text offers an analysis of navigation theory application in recent missions, with the goal of showing students the relationship between navigation theory and the real-world orchestration of mission operations.

Author : William Tyrrell Thomson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780486140520

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Introduction to Space Dynamics by William Tyrrell Thomson Pdf

Comprehensive, classic introduction to space-flight engineering for advanced undergraduate and graduate students provides basic tools for quantitative analysis of the motions of satellites and other vehicles in space.

Author : Ossama Abdelkhalik
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781351119092

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Algorithms for Variable-Size Optimization by Ossama Abdelkhalik Pdf

Many systems architecture optimization problems are characterized by a variable number of optimization variables. Many classical optimization algorithms are not suitable for such problems. The book presents recently developed optimization concepts that are designed to solve such problems. These new concepts are implemented using genetic algorithms and differential evolution. The examples and applications presented show the effectiveness of the use of these new algorithms in optimizing systems architectures. The book focuses on systems architecture optimization. It covers new algorithms and its applications, besides reviewing fundamental mathematical concepts and classical optimization methods. It also provides detailed modeling of sample engineering problems. The book is suitable for graduate engineering students and engineers. The second part of the book includes numerical examples on classical optimization algorithms, which are useful for undergraduate engineering students. While focusing on the algorithms and their implementation, the applications in this book cover the space trajectory optimization problem, the optimization of earth orbiting satellites orbits, and the optimization of the wave energy converter dynamic system: architecture and control. These applications are illustrated in the starting of the book, and are used as case studies in later chapters for the optimization methods presented in the book.

Author : Christopher Rampersad
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Artificial satellites
ISBN : 0612951820

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Optimization of Low-thrust Spacecraft Trajectories by Direct Shooting Methods [microform] by Christopher Rampersad Pdf

The direct approach for trajectory optimization was found to be very robust. For most problems, solutions were obtained even with poor initial guesses for the controls. The direct approach was also found to be only slightly less accurate than the indirect methods found in the literature (within 0.7%). The present study investigates minimum-time and minimum-fuel low-thrust trajectory problems via a single shooting direct method. Various Earth-based and interplanetary case studies have been examined and have yielded good agreement with similar cases in the literature. Furthermore, new near-optimal trajectory problems have been successfully solved. A multiple-orbit thrust parameterization strategy was also developed to solve near-optimal very-low-thrust Earth-based transfers. Lastly, this thesis examines the use of the high-accuracy complex-step derivative approximation method for solving low-thrust transfer problems. For certain very nonlinear transfer problems, the complex-step derivative approximation was found to increase the robustness of the single shooting direct method.

Author : Giorgio Fasano,János D. Pintér
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461444688

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Modeling and Optimization in Space Engineering by Giorgio Fasano,János D. Pintér Pdf

This volume presents a selection of advanced case studies that address a substantial range of issues and challenges arising in space engineering. The contributing authors are well-recognized researchers and practitioners in space engineering and in applied optimization. The key mathematical modeling and numerical solution aspects of each application case study are presented in sufficient detail. Classic and more recent space engineering problems – including cargo accommodation and object placement, flight control of satellites, integrated design and trajectory optimization, interplanetary transfers with deep space manoeuvres, low energy transfers, magnetic cleanliness modeling, propulsion system design, sensor system placement, systems engineering, space traffic logistics, and trajectory optimization – are discussed. Novel points of view related to computational global optimization and optimal control, and to multidisciplinary design optimization are also given proper emphasis. A particular attention is paid also to scenarios expected in the context of future interplanetary explorations. Modeling and Optimization in Space Engineering will benefit researchers and practitioners working on space engineering applications. Academics, graduate and post-graduate students in the fields of aerospace and other engineering, applied mathematics, operations research and optimal control will also find the book useful, since it discusses a range of advanced model development and solution techniques and tools in the context of real-world applications and new challenges.