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Designing Trajectories in a Planet-Moon Environment Using the Controlled Keplerian Map
- Source :
- Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 32:437-444
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2009.
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Abstract
- The design of fuel-efficient trajectories that visit different moons of a planetary system is best handled by breaking the problem up into multiple three-body problems. This approach, called the patched three-body approach, has received considerable attention in recent years and has proved to lead to substantial fuel savings compared with the traditional patched-conic approach. We consider the problem of designing fuel-efficient multimoon orbiter spacecraft trajectories in the Jupiter―Europa―Ganymede spacecraft system with realistic transfer times. First, fuel- optimal (i.e., near-zero-fuel) trajectories without the use of any control are determined, but turn out to be infeasible due to the very long transfer times involved. We then describe a methodology that exploits the underlying structure of the dynamics of the two three-body problems, that is, the Jupiter―Europa spacecraft and Jupiter―Ganymede spacecraft, using the Hamiltonian structure-preserving Keplerian map approximations derived earlier and small control inputs in the form of instantaneous ΔV to get trajectories with times of flight on the order of months rather than several years. A typical trajectory constructed using the control algorithm can complete the mission in about 10% of the time of flight of an uncontrolled trajectory.
- Subjects :
- Spacecraft
business.industry
Computer science
Applied Mathematics
Aerospace Engineering
Two-body problem
Motion control
Celestial mechanics
Synchronization
law.invention
Orbiter
Space and Planetary Science
Control and Systems Engineering
Planet
law
Control theory
Physics::Space Physics
Patched conic approximation
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15333884 and 07315090
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a1966eff96d6e227767cd5bae50efbc5