DocumentCode :
2257696
Title :
Minimum-fuel powered descent guidance for soft landing on irregular-shaped asteroids
Author :
Yiyu, Zheng ; Hutao, Cui ; Yang, Tian
Author_Institution :
Deep Space Exploration Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
fYear :
2015
fDate :
28-30 July 2015
Firstpage :
5113
Lastpage :
5118
Abstract :
This work is concerned with the minimum-fuel power descent to a prescribed landing site on a irregular-shaped asteroid. With the small and complicated gravitational field taken into account, we present the equations of spacecraft motion in the asteroid-fixed Cartesian coordinate frame. To solve the minimum-fuel problem, we construct a performance index which links the minimum-fuel problem with the minimum-energy problem by a homotopy parameter. Based on the Pontryagin´s maximum principle and the numerical continuation method, we transform the optimal control problem into a series of two-point boundary-value problems. we solve the optimal problems by starting from a solution of the energy-optimal problem, which is obtained by the using of the pseudo-spectral method. We reduce the homotopy parameter by following a certain series and take the solution obtained in the current iteration as an initial guess for that in the next one. Finally, we obtain a minimum-fuel power descent trajectory for soft landing on a irregular-shaped asteroid with easy convergence and high precision.
Keywords :
Convergence; Optimal control; Performance analysis; Radio frequency; Space vehicles; Trajectory optimization; Asteroid; fuel-optimal trajectory; homotopy continuation; soft landing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control Conference (CCC), 2015 34th Chinese
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ChiCC.2015.7260437
Filename :
7260437
Link To Document :
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