Design of Trajectory Optimization Approach for Space Maneuver Vehicle Skip Entry Problems

✍ Scribed by Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Springer Aerospace Technology
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 1-6
Overview of Trajectory Optimization Techniques (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 7-25
Modeling of the Trajectory Optimization Problems (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 27-53
Performance Analysis of Different Optimization Strategies (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 55-72
Hybrid Optimization Methods with Enhanced Convergence Ability (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 73-97
Multi-objective Trajectory Optimization Problem (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 99-132
Real-Time Optimal Guidance and Control Strategies for Space Maneuver Vehicles (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 133-161
Stochastic Trajectory Optimization Problems with Chance Constraints (Runqi Chai, Al Savvaris, Antonios Tsourdos, Senchun Chai)....Pages 163-191
Back Matter ....Pages 193-207

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Control; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization