Guidance trajectories for spacecraft rendezvous (Q946320)

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    Guidance trajectories for spacecraft rendezvous (English)
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    23 September 2008
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    The authors study how to optimize the three-dimensional rendezvous between a target spacecraft in a planar circular orbit and a chaser spacecraft with an initial separation distance and separation velocity. The authors employ the multiple-subarc sequential gradient-restoration algorithm [see the authors' previous paper, ibid. 132, No. 3, 353--376 (2007; Zbl 1176.70036)] to produce pieced guidance trajectories. In fact the authors investigate the four problems: (P1) minimum time, fuel free; (P2) minimum fuel, time free; (P3) minimum time, fuel given; and (P4) minimum fuel, time given.
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    space trajectories
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    rendezvous
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    guidance
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    optimal control
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    calculus of variations
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    Mayer problems
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    Bolza problems
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    transformation techniques
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    multiple-subarc sequential gradient-restoration algorithm
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