Sliding mode control for attitude maneuvers of Helianthus solar sail

M Bassetto, L Niccolai, L Boni, G Mengali, AA Quarta… - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
The recent successes of demonstration missions based on solar sail technology have paved
the way for designing new mission scenarios with propellantless propulsion systems. In this …

Deep networks as approximators of optimal low-thrust and multi-impulse cost in multitarget missions

H Li, S Chen, D Izzo, H Baoyin - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
In the design of multitarget interplanetary missions, there are always many options available,
making it often impractical to optimize in detail each transfer trajectory in a preliminary …

Trajectory & maneuver design of the NEA Scout solar sail mission

G Lantoine, A Cox, T Sweetser, D Grebow, G Whiffen… - Acta Astronautica, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) mission aimed to deliver a 6U CubeSat
to a slow flyby of a Near Earth Asteroid using a solar sail as the primary propulsion system …

Rapid planning for aerocapture trajectory via convex optimization

H Han, D Qiao, H Chen, X Li - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Aerocapture, which usually refers to delivering a vehicle from hyperbolic orbit to planetary
orbit using the aerodynamic force, can potentially lower fuel consumption. By controlling the …

Forecasting-based data-driven model-free adaptive sliding mode attitude control of combined spacecraft

H Gao, G Ma, Y Lv, Y Guo - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel forecasting-based data-driven model-free adaptive sliding mode
attitude control (FMFASMC) method is proposed for the postcapture combined spacecraft in …

Solar Sail Transfer Trajectory Design for Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1 Rendezvous

AA Quarta, K Abu Salem, G Palaia - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The goal of this paper is to analyze the optimal transfer towards the periodic comet
29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1 of a solar sail-based spacecraft. This periodic and active …

Low-thrust spacecraft trajectory optimization via a DNN-based method

S Yin, J Li, L Cheng - Advances in Space Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Initial solution guess has a significant impact on the convergence of indirect methods,
especially for continuous low-thrust trajectory optimization problems. In this study, an …

Real-time trajectory optimization for collision-free asteroid landing based on deep neural networks

Y Zhao, H Yang, S Li - Advances in Space Research, 2022 - Elsevier
For the problem of autonomous and safe landing on irregularly shaped asteroids, a real-time
collision-free trajectory optimization method based on deep neural networks (DNNs) is …

Trajectory design for a solar-sail mission to asteroid 2016 HO3

J Heiligers, JM Fernandez, OR Stohlman, WK Wilkie - Astrodynamics, 2019 - Springer
This paper proposes the use of solar-sail technology currently under development at NASA
Langley Research Center for a CubeSat rendezvous mission with asteroid 2016 HO 3, a …

A pseudoequinoctial sha** method with fourier approximation for low-thrust trajectory optimization

T Zhang, D Wu, F Jiang, J Li - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Shape-based methods are commonly used in solving the low-thrust trajectory optimization
problem. Designing a shape trajectory by maximizing a given performance index has been …