Optimization of low-thrust interplanetary trajectories using collocation and nonlinear programming
Optimization of low-thrust interplanetary trajectories using collocation and nonlinear programming
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DOI:
10.2514/3.21429
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Sean Tang;B. Conway
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作者:
Sean Tang;B. Conway
The method of collocation with nonlinear programming is applied to the determination of minimum-time, low-thrust interplanetary transfer trajectories. Since the vehicle motor operates continuously, the minimum-time trajectories are also propellant minimizing. The numerical solution method requires that the transfer be divided into three phases: escape from the departure planet, heliocentric flight, and arrival at the destination planet. Two-body gravitational models are used in each phase and the transformation from planetocentric coordinates to heliocentric coordinates and vice-versa is incorporated as a set of nonlinear constraints on the problem variables. No a priori assumptions on the optimal control time history are required. An Earth-to-Mars transfer with a very low thrust acceleration of 0.0001 g is used as an example.