AbstractWe have developed a novel continuation technique to solve optimal bang-bang control for low-thrust orbital transfers considering the first-order necessary optimality conditions derived from Lawden's primer vector theory. Continuation on the thrust amplitude is mainly described in this paper. Firstly, a finite-thrust transfer with an “On-Off-On” thrusting sequence is modeled using a two-impulse transfer as initial solution, and then the thrust amplitude is decreased gradually to find an optimal solution with minimum thrust. Secondly, the thrust amplitude is continued from its minimum value to positive infinity to find the optimal bang-bang control, and a thrust switching principle is employed to determine the control structure by monitoring the variation of the switching function. In the continuation process, a bifurcation of bang-bang control is revealed and the concept of critical thrust is proposed to illustrate this phenomenon. The same thrust switching principle is also applicable to the continuation on other parameters, such as transfer time, orbital phase angle, etc. By this continuation technique, fuel-optimal orbital transfers with variable mission parameters can be found via an automated algorithm, and there is no need to provide an initial guess for the costate variables. Moreover, continuation is implemented in the solution space of bang-bang control that is either optimal or non-optimal, which shows that a desired solution of bang-bang control is obtained via continuation on a single parameter starting from an existing solution of bang-bang control. Finally, numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed continuation technique. Specifically, this continuation technique provides an approach to find multiple solutions satisfying the first-order necessary optimality conditions to the same orbital transfer problem, and a continuation strategy is presented as a preliminary approach for solving the bang-bang control of many-revolution orbital transfers.

    HighlightsA novel continuation technique to solve optimal bang-bang control is proposed.A thrust switching principle during the continuation process is proposed.There is no need to provide initial guess for costate variables.A bifurcation phenomenon of bang-bang control is revealed.Distinct solutions are found to a same TPBVP satisfying optimality conditions.


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    Titel :

    Solving fuel-optimal low-thrust orbital transfers with bang-bang control using a novel continuation technique


    Beteiligte:
    Zhu, Zhengfan (Autor:in) / Gan, Qingbo (Autor:in) / Yang, Xin (Autor:in) / Gao, Yang (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 137 ; 98-113


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017-03-29


    Format / Umfang :

    16 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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