Designing rendezvous missions with mini-moons using geometric optimal control

Monique Chyba; Geoff Patterson; Gautier Picot; Mikael Granvik; Robert Jedicke; Jeremie Vaubaillon

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April 2014, 10(2): 477-501. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2014.10.477

Designing rendezvous missions with mini-moons using geometric optimal control

Monique Chyba ^1, , Geoff Patterson ^1, , Gautier Picot ^1, , Mikael Granvik ^2, , Robert Jedicke ^3, and Jeremie Vaubaillon ^4,

1.	Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, United States, United States
2.	Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
3.	Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States
4.	Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France

Received March 2013 Revised August 2013 Published October 2013

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Temporarily-captured Natural Earth Satellites (NES) are very appealing targets for space missions for many reasons. Indeed, NES get captured by the Earth's gravity for some period of time, making for a more cost-effective and time-effective mission compared to a deep-space mission, such as the 7-year Hayabusa mission. Moreover, their small size introduces the possibility of returning with the entire temporarily-captured orbiter (TCO) to Earth. Additionally, NES can be seen as interesting targets when examining figures of their orbits. It requires to expand the current state-of-art of the techniques in geometric optimal control applied to low-thrust orbital transfers. Based on a catalogue of over sixteen-thousand NES, and assuming ionic propulsion for the spacecraft, we compute time minimal rendezvous missions for more than $96%$ of the NES. The time optimal control transfers are calculated using classical indirect methods of optimal control based on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Additionally we verify the local optimality of the transfers using second order conditions.

Keywords: natural Earth satellites, Control theory, orbital transfer, temporarily captured orbiters..

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 49M05, 70M20; Secondary: 49K1.

Citation: Monique Chyba, Geoff Patterson, Gautier Picot, Mikael Granvik, Robert Jedicke, Jeremie Vaubaillon. Designing rendezvous missions with mini-moons using geometric optimal control. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2014, 10 (2) : 477-501. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2014.10.477

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[8]	B. Bonnard, J.-B. Caillau and G. Picot, Geometric and numerical techniques in optimal control of the two and three-body problems,, Commun. Inf. Syst., 10 (2010), 239. doi: 10.4310/CIS.2010.v10.n4.a5. Google Scholar
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[10]	B. Bonnard, J.-B. Caillau and E. Trélat, Second order optimality conditions in the smooth case and applications in optimal control,, ESAIM Control Optim. and Calc. Var., 13 (2007), 207. doi: 10.1051/cocv:2007012. Google Scholar
[11]	B. Bonnard and M. Chyba, Singular Trajectories and their Role in Control Theory,, Mathématiques & Applications (Berlin) [Mathematics & Applications], (2003). Google Scholar
[12]	B. Bonnard, L. Faubourg and E. Trélat, Mécanique Céleste et Contrôle des Véhicules Spatiaux,, Mathématiques & Applications (Berlin) [Mathematics & Applications], 51 (2006). Google Scholar
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[16]	J.-B. Caillau, Contribution à l'Etude du Contrôle en Temps Minimal des Transferts Orbitaux,, Ph.D thesis, (2000). Google Scholar
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[18]	J.-B. Caillau, O. Cots and J. Gergaud, Differential continuation for regular optimal control problems,, Optim. Methods Softw., 27 (2012), 177. doi: 10.1080/10556788.2011.593625. Google Scholar
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[22]	G. Gómez, W. S. Koon, M. W. Lo, J. E. Marsden, J. Masdemont and S. D. Ross, Connecting orbits and invariant manifolds in the spatial three-body problem,, Nonlinearity, 17 (2004), 1571. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/17/5/002. Google Scholar
[23]	M. Granvik, J. Vaubaillon and R. Jedicke, The population of natural Earth satellites,, Icarus, 218 (2012), 262. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.003. Google Scholar
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[25]	J. Kawagachi, A. Fujiwara and T. K. Uesugi, The ion engine cruise operation and the Earth swingby of Hayabusa (MUSES-C),, in Proceddings of the 55th International Astronotical Congress, (2004). Google Scholar
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[29]	A. Moore, Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design,, Ph.D thesis, (2011). Google Scholar
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[31]	G. Picot, Shooting and numerical continuation method for computing time-minimal and energy-minimal trajectories in the Earth-Moon system using low propulsion,, Discrete Cont. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 17 (2012), 245. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.245. Google Scholar
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[36]	A. V. Sary\vchev, Index of second variation of a control system,, Mat. Sb. (N.S), 113(155) (1980), 464. Google Scholar
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[38]	D. A Vallado, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications,, Springer, (2001). Google Scholar
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