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SUMMARY Electric propulsion has recently become a viable technology for spacecraft, enabling shorter flight times, fewer required planetary gravity assists, larger payloads, and/or smaller launch vehicles. With the maturation of this technology, however, comes a new set of challenges in the area of trajectory design. Because low-thrust trajectory optimization has historically required long run-times and significant user-manipulation, mission design has relied on expert-based knowledge for selecting departure and arrival dates, times of flight, and/or target bodies and gravitational swing-bys. These choices are generally based on known configurations that have worked well in previous analyses or simply on trial and error. At the conceptual design level, however, the ability to explore the full extent of the design space is imperative to locating the best solutions in terms of mass and/or flight times. Beginning in 2005, the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition posed a series of difficult mission design problems, all requiring low-thrust propulsion and visiting one or more asteroids. These problems all had large ranges on the continuous variables – launch date, time of flight, and asteroid stay times (when applicable) – as well as being characterized by millions or even billions of possible asteroid sequences. Even with recent advances in low-thrust trajectory optimization, full enumeration of these problems was not possible within the stringent time limits of the competition. This investigation develops a systematic methodology for determining a broad suite of good solutions to the combinatorial, low-thrust, asteroid tour problem. The target application is for conceptual design, where broad exploration of the design space is critical, with the goal being to rapidly identify a reasonable number of promising solutions for future analysis. The proposed methodology has two steps. The first step applies a three-level heuristic sequence developed from the physics of the problem, which allows for efficient pruning of the design space. The second phase applies a global xviii
optimization scheme to locate a broad suite of good solutions to the reduced problem. The global optimization scheme developed combines a novel branch-and-bound algorithm with a genetic algorithm and an industry-standard low-thrust trajectory optimization program to solve for the following design variables: asteroid sequence, launch date, times of flight, and asteroid stay times. The methodology is developed based on a small sample problem, which is enumerated and solved so that all possible discretized solutions are known. The methodology is then validated by applying it to a larger intermediate sample problem, which also has a known solution. Next, the methodology is applied to several larger combinatorial asteroid rendezvous problems, using previously identified good solutions as validation benchmarks. These problems include the 2 nd and 3 rd Global Trajectory Optimization Competition problems. The methodology is shown to be capable of achieving a reduction in the number of asteroid sequences of 6-7 orders of magnitude, in terms of the number of sequences that require low-thrust optimization as compared to the number of sequences in the original problem. More than 70% of the previously known good solutions are identified, along with several new solutions that were not previously reported by any of the competitors. Overall, the methodology developed in this investigation provides an organized search technique for the low-thrust mission design of asteroid rendezvous problems. xix
Page 1 and 2: DESIGN SPACE PRUNING HEURISTICS AND
Page 3 and 4: “The mediocre teacher tells. The
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Page 7 and 8: 2.5 Small Sample Problem...........
Page 9 and 10: LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Ten best ast
Page 11 and 12: LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Mars round
Page 13 and 14: Figure 35: Low-thrust optima as a f
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Page 17: σBXB υ φ ω Ω Sample standard d
Page 21 and 22: provide clues to the nature of the
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Page 25 and 26: Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, w
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Page 29 and 30: Figure 2: Trajectory structure of t
Page 31 and 32: flyby problems with numerous interm
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Page 57 and 58: CHAPTER II DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLO
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The order in which the branches are
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approach performs best, followed by
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Figure 16: Effect of number of segm
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Within the sample problem, MALTO wa
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Table 2: Orbital elements of astero
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final mass. The correlation coeffic
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Maximum Final Mass (kg) 1500 1250 L
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The next approach is to compare the
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Final Mass (kg) 950 900 850 800 750
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pruning metric must be calculated f
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educed-size problem. Furthermore, t
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aBiB < 25%, and 15% for Leg 1, Leg
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Earth departure date and three time
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algorithm, which determines the opt
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is calculated using the same specif
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metrics which were calculated in th
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sorted by final mass. All of the se
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impulse optima. Figure 35 plots the
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CHAPTER III OVERVIEW OF METHODOLOGY
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(1) All asteroid sequences are rank
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two-impulse optimum solutions. Ther
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identifying another metric that cou
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CHAPTER IV VALIDATION OF METHODOLOG
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Table 8 lists the 10 best asteroid
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In order to further validate the pr
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impulse ∆V). The first iteration
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Because the impulsive multiplier ha
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Table 12: Effectiveness of the meth
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function calls to MALTO were requir
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order of 0.8 (assuming a final mass
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Table 16: Design variables for gene
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known solution to 1621 kg. Based on
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MBfB (kg) #1, #63, and #16, respect
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problem (Table 17). Additionally, t
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≤ Inclination (deg) 60 50 40 30 2
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order to have a benchmark with whic
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Of the remaining sequences, the 1 s
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Table 22: Settings for the genetic
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120 Impulsive Solutions Low-Thrust
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of exactly four weeks. As a benchma
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Objective Function (kg/yr) 120 100
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these two problems, the best known
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asteroid sequences would be require
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Table 27: Best known solutions rema
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Table 29: Best known solutions rema
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good solutions exist in the design
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heuristics chosen were based on the
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problem, the best set of solutions
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Finally, for each set of inner loop
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solutions from the GTOC2 competitio
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sequences were optimized in low-thr
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application is for the conceptual d
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types of the TSP, they have not bee
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methodology would be applied in the
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APPENDIX A SET OF GTOC2 ASTEROIDS T
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3054373 "2000 UK11" 0.88325596 0.24
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3152317 "2003 GQ22" 0.87232869 0.18
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3283227 "2005 MR5" 0.85281863 0.295
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2000089 Julia 2.5500653 0.18377079
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2000496 Gryphia 2.1987751 0.079568
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2001216 Askania 2.2322234 0.1793551
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2000134 Sophrosyne 2.5632069 0.1166
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2000712 Boliviana 2.5738464 0.18812
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2005209 "1989 CW1" 5.1533221 0.0495
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36 2006 RJ1 0.9508113 0.30070707 1.
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