Abstract Space mission design places a premium on cost and operational efficiency. The
search for new science and life beyond Earth calls for spacecraft that can deliver scientific …

For most atmospheric or exo-atmospheric spacecraft flight scenarios, a well-designed
trajectory is usually a key for stable flight and for improved guidance and control of the …

For an optimal control problem, one seeks to optimize a performance measure subject to a
set of dynamic, and possibly algebraic, constraints. The dynamic constraints may be …

This paper presents a convex approach to the numerical solution of the minimum-fuel low-
thrust orbit transfer problem. The main contribution is the transformation of the original …

Abstract Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), sensing and computing technologies
have led to the development of new promising concept for the safe and efficient operation of …

In this paper, a convex optimization method for the numerical solution of the minimum-time
low-thrust orbit transfer problem is presented. The main contribution is the transformation of …

Engineering optimization is the subject of interest for many scientific research teams on a
global scale; it is a part of today's mathematical modelling and control of processes and …

With cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other new information technologies
going into space, the era of space intelligence is coming. The spacecraft is facing more …

Traditionally, indirect methods for trajectory optimization start with the non-intuitive guesses
of the initial costates, but it is difficult to generate the initial guesses for the low-thrust many …

An efficient indirect method is presented to determine fuel-optimal many-revolution low-
thrust transfers in the presence of Earth-shadow eclipses. Specifically, the events of shadow …