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Design Space Pruning Heuristics and Global Optimization Method for Conceptual Design of Low-Thrust Asteroid Tour Missions
Design Space Pruning Heuristics and Global Optimization Method for Conceptual Design of Low-Thrust Asteroid Tour Missions
| dc.contributor.author | Alemany, Kristina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Braun, Robert D. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | International Astronautical Federation | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-22T19:23:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-22T19:23:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 | |
| dc.description | Presented at the 59th International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, Scotland. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Electric propulsion has recently become a viable technology for spacecraft, enabling shorter flight times, fewer required planetary gravity assists, larger payload masses, and/or smaller launch vehicles. With the maturation of this technology, however, comes a new set of challenges in the area of trajectory design. In 2006, the 2nd Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC2) posed a difficult mission design problem: to design the best possible low-thrust trajectory, in terms of final mass and total mission time, that would rendezvous with one asteroid in each of four pre-defined groups. Even with recent advances in low-thrust trajectory optimization, a full enumeration of this problem was not possible. This work presents a two-step methodology for determining the optimum solution to a low-thrust, combinatorial asteroid rendezvous problem. First is a pruning step that uses a heuristic sequence to quickly reduce the size of the design space. Second, a multi-level genetic algorithm is combined with a low-thrust trajectory optimization method to locate the best solutions of the reduced design space. The proposed methodology is then validated by applying it to a problem with a known solution. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1853/73998 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.publisher.original | International Astronautical Federation (IAF) | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | SSDL ; IAC-08-C1.2.3 | |
| dc.rights | Unless otherwise noted, all materials are protected under U.S. Copyright Law and all rights are reserved | |
| dc.rights.metadata | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en | |
| dc.title | Design Space Pruning Heuristics and Global Optimization Method for Conceptual Design of Low-Thrust Asteroid Tour Missions | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL) | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | |
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