Fuel-optimal low-thrust CAM with eclipse constraints

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Fuel-optimal low-thrust CAM with eclipse constraints

Eduardo Maria Polli, Juan Luis Gonzalo, Camilla Colombo

Abstract. This works presents an optimal control direct method to design fuel-optimal low-thrust Collision Avoidance Manoeuvres (CAMs), imposing return to nominal conditions and including eclipse constraints. The methodology exploits the Hermite-Simpon integration scheme to impose the dynamics and the Squared Mahalanobis Distance (SMD) to ensure a collision probability lower than a prescribed value. The choice of using a direct method to solve the Optimal Control Problem (OCP) is justified by the inclusion of orbital perturbations.

Keywords
Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre, Low Thrust, Optimal Control, Collision Probability, Space Traffic Management

Published online 6/1/2024, 4 pages
Copyright © 2024 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Eduardo Maria Polli, Juan Luis Gonzalo, Camilla Colombo, Fuel-optimal low-thrust CAM with eclipse constraints, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 42, pp 158-161, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903193-35

The article was published as article 35 of the book Aerospace Science and Engineering

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