This article presents a new and fast indirect method for solving fuel-optimal descent trajectories in the gravitational field of an irregularly-shaped asteroid. The costates associated with a two-impulse descent trajectory are used as approximate costates for the costate initialization of a finite-thrust fuel-optimal trajectory planning problem. The approximate solutions of the initial velocity and mass costates are given in analytical forms. A simple shooting equation is derived to solve the approximate position costates. The two-impulsive descent trajectory is solved by an irregular gravitational Lambert solver. Based on the Lambert solver and approximate costates, an algorithm is proposed for trajectory optimization with varying time of flight. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method are tested through the simulation of landing on the asteroid 433 Eros. Additionally, a computationally efficient approximate model is employed to replace the polyhedral model, which greatly improves the computational speed and enhance the ability to address uncertainties.


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    Title :

    Fuel-Optimal Asteroid Descent Trajectory Planning Using a Lambert Solution-Based Costate Initialization


    Contributors:
    Yang, Hongwei (author) / Li, Shuang (author)


    Publication date :

    2020-12-01


    Size :

    6494764 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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