Robust Preliminary Design for Multiple Gravity Assist Spacecraft Trajectories
Author: Donald Hamilton Ellison
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Author: Donald Hamilton Ellison
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: OV Papkov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 135142971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting the results of twenty years; experience in the field of multipurpose flights, this monograph includes the complex routes of the trajectories of a number of bodies (e.g., space vehicles, comets) in the solar system. A general methodological approach to the research of flight schemes and the choice of optimal performances is developed. Additionally, a number of interconnected methods and algorithms used at sequential stages of such development are introduced, which allow the selection of a rational multipurpose route for a space vehicle, the design of multipurpose orbits, the determination of optimal space vehicle design, and ballistic performances for carrying out the routes chosen. Other topics include the practical results obtained from using these methods, navigation problems, near-to-planet orbits, and an overview of proven and new flight schemes.
Author: A V Labunsky
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1998-11-26
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789056990909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting the results of twenty years; experience in the field of multipurpose flights, this monograph includes the complex routes of the trajectories of a number of bodies (e.g., space vehicles, comets) in the solar system. A general methodological approach to the research of flight schemes and the choice of optimal performances is developed. Additionally, a number of interconnected methods and algorithms used at sequential stages of such development are introduced, which allow the selection of a rational multipurpose route for a space vehicle, the design of multipurpose orbits, the determination of optimal space vehicle design, and ballistic performances for carrying out the routes chosen. Other topics include the practical results obtained from using these methods, navigation problems, near-to-planet orbits, and an overview of proven and new flight schemes.
Author: Timothy Fitzgerald
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSTOpS successfully found optimal trajectories for the Mariner 10 mission and the Voyager 2 mission that were similar to the actual missions flown. STOpS did not necessarily find better trajectories than those actually flown, but instead demonstrated the capability to quickly and successfully analyze/plan trajectories. The analysis for each of these missions took 2-3 days each. The final program is a robust tool that has taken existing techniques and applied them to the specific problem of trajectory optimization, so it can repeatedly and reliably solve these types of problems.
Author: John E. Prussing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 019881108X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA textbook on the theory and applications of optimal spacecraft trajectories
Author: Steve Neal Williams
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David de la Torre Sangrà
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 223
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterplanetary travel is a difficult task due to the high fuel mass required to reach other planets. Minimizing the cost of the manoeuvres (and, in turn, the fuel mass) is the objective preliminary mission design. During this phase, a large number of potential solutions must be evaluated quickly in search of feasible trajectories. This means computationally fast but simple models are preferred over accurate but slow models. Additionally, the process demands for an automatic execution due to the vast amount of solutions that must be evaluated. One of the major improvements regarding space travel was the discovery of the gravity assist, where a spacecraft uses the gravitational pull of a flyby planet to change its velocity with respect to the Sun. This allows reducing the amount of fuel mass, which in turn increases the science payload available for the mission. This thesis deals with the optimization of interplanetary trajectories with gravity assist. From an engineering approach, the thesis aims at producing an automatic optimizer of interplanetary trajectories with gravity assist manoeuvres aimed to preliminary mission design applications. From a scientific approach, the thesis aims at identifying key issues in the literature that allow for improvement and presenting novel implementations. Finally, the thesis has a strong educational component: the code and tools are specially focused towards an easy understanding and analysis of the underlying methods rather than producing a computationally efficient code. The result from this work is an automatic optimizer of multi gravity-assist interplanetary trajectories. The tool is fully modular and works with a double-loop approach: an outer loop obtains feasible sequences of planets using the Tisserand graph and an inner loop finds the best trajectory for each sequence using a hybrid heuristic optimizer and a patched conics method. Five key issues have been investigated and improved upon during the thesis: we provide an improved solution method for the Kepler equation, we have conducted an extensive bibliographic research of Lambert's problem and analyzed the representative methods to select the best for our application, we have recovered and improved the Lambert's problem method by Simó , we present two different models for the patched conics method, we have developed an automatic method to traverse the Tisserand graph and finally we have implemented several heuristic optimization methods and coupled them with an islands model. The resulting tool has already proved to work in operational mission design scenarios. However, it lends itself to many improvements and upgrades, in particular increasing the level of automation, improving the physical model and the patched conics method robustness, improving the visualization capabilities during the optimization stage and translating the code into compiled language to increase the computational performance with complex missions and intensive simulations.
Author: Martin James Brennan
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Demyan Vasilyevich Lantukh
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 510
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Shaw
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe design capacity for synergetic gravity assists (powered flyby's) changes the type of possible optimal trajectories to distant planets. Heuristic optimization methods have potential to produce useful trajectories for design purposes. The application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to determine optimal mission trajectories from Earth to planets of interest, subject to synergetic gravity assist maneuver(s) in between. In order to verify the results from PSO, past missions are re-examined from a new design perspective. The trajectories designed by aid of PSO are compared to the trajectories involving the real mission dates. Test results are obtained for Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Cassini. The results closely resemble those of actual mission data, providing support for the new design method involving PSO and synergetic gravitational assists. The computation of these solutions offers the unique benefit of costing one to two minutes of wall clock time with standard desktop or laptop computing systems. In addition to the past missions that are considered for re-design, the work then extends the design method to a newly proposed multiple gravity-assist mission from Earth to Saturn that could take place within the next few years. Two different mission timelines are considered. Direct routes and multiple gravity assist (MGA) routes to Saturn are compared. The best solutions from PSO for the MGA routes are on an order of one half to one third the propellant cost as compared to the direct routes for the launch and arrival dates chosen. Finally, consideration for promising future research directions involving PSO and synergetic gravity assist maneuvers is discussed.