Different from the current studies on the impulsive rendezvous which are mainly normal propellant-optimal or time-optimal designs, the safety-optimal impulsive rendezvous with consideration of practical trajectory uncertainties is investigated in this paper. An optimization model for safety-optimal rendezvous is established based on the Clohessy-Wiltshire (C-W) equations, which employs one new, recently proposed quantitative performance index of the rendezvous trajectory safety as the objective function. A real-coded genetic algorithm is adopted to locate the optimal solution. The safety index and the optimization approach are tested by several rendezvous problems with different numbers of impulses and different approach directions. The practical application value of the safety-optimal rendezvous trajectory is demonstrated by comparing with the traditional propellant-optimal and time-optimal rendezvous trajectories.


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    Title :

    Safety-Optimal Linearized Impulsive Rendezvous with Trajectory Uncertainties


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    2013-06-20




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    Article (Journal)


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    Electronic Resource


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    Unknown



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