The sun–Jupiter Trojan asteroids are celestial bodies of great scientific interest as well as potential natural assets offering mineral resources for long-term human exploration of the Solar System. Previous investigations have addressed the automated design of tours within the asteroid swarm and the transition of prospective tours to higher-fidelity, end-to-end trajectories. The current development incorporates the route-finding ant colony optimization algorithm into the automated tour-generation procedure. Furthermore, the potential scientific merit of the destination asteroids is incorporated such that encounters with higher-value asteroids are preferentially incorporated during sequence creation.


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    Title :

    Design of End-to-End Trojan Asteroid Rendezvous Tours Incorporating Scientific Value


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    Publication date :

    2016-03-11


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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