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Book Trajectory Optimization and Guidance for an Aerospace Plane

Download or read book Trajectory Optimization and Guidance for an Aerospace Plane written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first step in the approach to developing guidance laws for a horizontal take-off, air breathing single-stage-to-orbit vehicle is to characterize the minimum-fuel ascent trajectories. The capability to generate constrained, minimum fuel ascent trajectories for a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle was developed. A key component of this capability is the general purpose trajectory optimization program OTIS. The pre-production version, OTIS 0.96 was installed and run on a Convex C-1. A propulsion model was developed covering the entire flight envelope of a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle. Three separate propulsion modes, corresponding to an after burning turbojet, a ramjet and a scramjet, are used in the air breathing propulsion phase. The Generic Hypersonic Aerodynamic Model Example aerodynamic model of a hypersonic air breathing single-stage-to-orbit vehicle was obtained and implemented. Preliminary results pertaining to the effects of variations in acceleration constraints, available thrust level and fuel specific impulse on the shape of the minimum-fuel ascent trajectories were obtained. The results show that, if the air breathing engines are sized for acceleration to orbital velocity, it is the acceleration constraint rather than the dynamic pressure constraint that is active during ascent. Mease, Kenneth D. and Vanburen, Mark A. Unspecified Center NAG1-907...

Book Trajectory Optimization and Guidance Law Development for National Aerospace Plane Applications

Download or read book Trajectory Optimization and Guidance Law Development for National Aerospace Plane Applications written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work completed to date is comprised of the following: a simple vehicle model representative of the aerospace plane concept in the hypersonic flight regime, fuel-optimal climb profiles for the unconstrained and dynamic pressure constrained cases generated using a reduced order dynamic model, an analytic switching condition for transition to rocket powered flight as orbital velocity is approached, simple feedback guidance laws for both the unconstrained and dynamic pressure constrained cases derived via singular perturbation theory and a nonlinear transformation technique, and numerical simulation results for ascent to orbit in the dynamic pressure constrained case. Calise, A. J. and Flandro, G. A. and Corban, J. E. Unspecified Center DYNAMIC MODELS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT; OPTIMAL CONTROL; PERTURBATION THEORY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION RAMJET ENGINES; WIND TUNNEL TESTS...

Book Rapid Near Optimal Aerospace Plane Trajectory Generation and Guidance

Download or read book Rapid Near Optimal Aerospace Plane Trajectory Generation and Guidance written by National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effort was directed toward the problems of the real time trajectory optimization and guidance law development for the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) applications. In particular, singular perturbation methods were used to develop guidance algorithms suitable for onboard, real time implementation. The progress made in this research effort is reported. Calise, A. J. and Corban, J. E. and Markopoulos, N. Unspecified Center NAG1-922

Book Trajectory Optimization for the National Aerospace Plane

Download or read book Trajectory Optimization for the National Aerospace Plane written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this second phase research is to investigate the optimal ascent trajectory for the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) from runway take-off to orbital insertion and address the unique problems associated with the hypersonic flight trajectory optimization. The trajectory optimization problem for an aerospace plane is a highly challenging problem because of the complexity involved. Previous work has been successful in obtaining sub-optimal trajectories by using energy-state approximation and time-scale decomposition techniques. But it is known that the energy-state approximation is not valid in certain portions of the trajectory. This research aims at employing full dynamics of the aerospace plane and emphasizing direct trajectory optimization methods. The major accomplishments of this research include the first-time development of an inverse dynamics approach in trajectory optimization which enables us to generate optimal trajectories for the aerospace plane efficiently and reliably, and general analytical solutions to constrained hypersonic trajectories that has wide application in trajectory optimization as well as in guidance and flight dynamics. Optimal trajectories in abort landing and ascent augmented with rocket propulsion and thrust vectoring control were also investigated. Motivated by this study, a new global trajectory optimization tool using continuous simulated annealing and a nonlinear predictive feedback guidance law have been under investigation and some promising results have been obtained, which may well lead to more significant development and application in the near future. Lu, Ping Unspecified Center NAG1-1255...

Book Advanced Trajectory Optimization Guidance and Control Strategies for Aerospace Vehicles

Download or read book Advanced Trajectory Optimization Guidance and Control Strategies for Aerospace Vehicles written by Runqi Chai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the design and application of advanced trajectory optimization and guidance and control (G&C) techniques for aerospace vehicles. Part I of the book focuses on the introduction of constrained aerospace vehicle trajectory optimization problems, with particular emphasis on the design of high-fidelity trajectory optimization methods, heuristic optimization-based strategies, and fast convexification-based algorithms. In Part II, various optimization theory/artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods are constructed and presented, including dynamic programming-based methods, model predictive control-based methods, and deep neural network-based algorithms. Key aspects of the application of these approaches, such as their main advantages and inherent challenges, are detailed and discussed. Some practical implementation considerations are then summarized, together with a number of future research topics. The comprehensive and systematic treatment of practical issues in aerospace trajectory optimization and guidance and control problems is one of the main features of the book, which is particularly suitable for readers interested in learning practical solutions in aerospace trajectory optimization and guidance and control. The book is useful to researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of G&C systems, engineering optimization, applied optimal control theory, etc.

Book Analytical Investigations in Aircraft and Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization and Optimal Guidance

Download or read book Analytical Investigations in Aircraft and Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization and Optimal Guidance written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of analytical studies is presented related to unconstrained and constrained aircraft (a/c) energy-state modeling and to spacecraft (s/c) motion under continuous thrust. With regard to a/c unconstrained energy-state modeling, the physical origin of the singular perturbation parameter that accounts for the observed 2-time-scale behavior of a/c during energy climbs is identified and explained. With regard to the constrained energy-state modeling, optimal control problems are studied involving active state-variable inequality constraints. Departing from the practical deficiencies of the control programs for such problems that result from the traditional formulations, a complete reformulation is proposed for these problems which, in contrast to the old formulation, will presumably lead to practically useful controllers that can track an inequality constraint boundary asymptotically, and even in the presence of 2-sided perturbations about it. Finally, with regard to s/c motion under continuous thrust, a thrust program is proposed for which the equations of 2-dimensional motion of a space vehicle in orbit, viewed as a point mass, afford an exact analytic solution. The thrust program arises under the assumption of tangential thrust from the costate system corresponding to minimum-fuel, power-limited, coplanar transfers between two arbitrary conics. The thrust program can be used not only with power-limited propulsion systems, but also with any propulsion system capable of generating continuous thrust of controllable magnitude, and, for propulsion types and classes of transfers for which it is sufficiently optimal the results of this report suggest a method of maneuvering during planetocentric or heliocentric orbital operations, requiring a minimum amount of computation; thus uniquely suitable for real-time feedback guidance implementations. Markopoulos, Nikos and Calise, Anthony J. Unspecified Center AIRCRAFT GUIDANCE; CONTROLLERS; FLIGHT PATHS; OPTIMAL CONTROL...

Book Design of Trajectory Optimization Approach for Space Maneuver Vehicle Skip Entry Problems

Download or read book Design of Trajectory Optimization Approach for Space Maneuver Vehicle Skip Entry Problems written by Runqi Chai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the design of optimal trajectories for space maneuver vehicles (SMVs) using optimal control-based techniques. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to and overview of three main approaches to trajectory optimization, and subsequently focuses on the design of a novel hybrid optimization strategy that combines an initial guess generator with an improved gradient-based inner optimizer. Further, it highlights the development of multi-objective spacecraft trajectory optimization problems, with a particular focus on multi-objective transcription methods and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. In its final sections, the book studies spacecraft flight scenarios with noise-perturbed dynamics and probabilistic constraints, and designs and validates new chance-constrained optimal control frameworks. The comprehensive and systematic treatment of practical issues in spacecraft trajectory optimization is one of the book’s major features, making it particularly suited for readers who are seeking practical solutions in spacecraft trajectory optimization. It offers a valuable asset for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in GNC systems, engineering optimization, applied optimal control theory, etc.

Book Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Aircraft Guidance

Download or read book Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Aircraft Guidance written by R. L. Schutz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A computationally efficient real-time trajectory optimization and guidance approach for hypersonic aircraft is described. The optimization approach is based on Euler-Lagrange energy state approximations. A three-dimensional, spherical-earth, aircraft-motion model with constraints on temperature, dynamic pressure, acceleration, and angle of attack is employed. Climb-to-orbit, return-from-orbit, flight-to-designated-landing-site, unpowered-abort, and powered-abort flight conditions are considered. Different performance criterion are used for different problems. Solution methods of varying computational complexity and performance capability are developed. An exact solution to the optimization problem using iteration on adjoint variables is developed.

Book Guidance Flight Mechanics and Trajectory Optimization

Download or read book Guidance Flight Mechanics and Trajectory Optimization written by M.B. Tamburro and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guidance Flight Mechanics and Trajectory Optimization

Download or read book Guidance Flight Mechanics and Trajectory Optimization written by R.L. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: