Existence and multiple solutions of the minimum-fuel orbit transfer problem

DOI10.1023/A:1022627003404zbMath0896.49021OpenAlexW65486699MaRDI QIDQ1372552

H. J. Oberle, K. Taubert

Publication date: 24 September 1998

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022627003404

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodmultiple solutionsminimum principleexistence of optimal controlcontrol constraintsorbit transfermultiple shooting techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential games and control (49N70) Variable mass, rockets (70P05) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Pursuit and evasion games (49N75)

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Uses Software

• BNDSCO

Cites Work

• On the numerical computation of minimum-fuel, Earth-Mars transfer
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