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Onboard Trajectory Design in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem using a Feature Learning Based Optimal Control Method

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At the cusp of scientific discovery and innovation, mankind's next greatest challenge lies in developing capabilities to enable human presence in deep space. This entails setting up space infrastructure, travel pathways, managing spacecraft traffic, and building up deep space operation logistics. Spacecrafts that are a part of the infrastructure must be able to perform myriad of operations and transfers such as rendezvous and docking, station-keeping, loitering, collision avoidance etc. In support of this endeavour, an investigation is done to analyze and recreate the solution space for fuel-optimal trajectories and control histories required for onboard trajectory design of inexpensive spacecraft transfers and operations. This study investigates close range rendezvous (CRR), nearby orbital transfer, collision avoidance, and long range transfer maneuvers for spacecrafts whose highly complex and nonlinear behavior is modelled using the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) dynamics and to which a finite-burn maneuver is augmented to model low-propulsion maneuvers. In order to study the nonlinear solution space for such maneuvers, this investigation contributes new formulations of nonlinear programming (NLP) optimal control problems solved to minimize fuel consumption, and validated by traditional methods already in use. This investigation proposes a Feature Learning based Optimal Control Method (L-OCM) to learn the solution space and recreate results in real-time. The NLP problem is solved off-line for a range of initial conditions. The set of solutions is used to generate datasets with initial conditions as inputs and the identified features of the optimal control solution as outputs. These features are inherent to reconstructing the optimal control histories of the solution and are selected keeping onboard computational capabilities in mind. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are trained to map the complex, nonlinear relationship between the inputs and outputs, and then implemented to find on-line solutions to any initial condition. The L-OCM method provides fuel-optimal, real-time solutions that can be implemented by a spacecraft performing operations in cislunar space.

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Degree Type

  • Master of Science

Department

  • Aeronautics and Astronautics

Campus location

  • West Lafayette

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Ran Dai

Additional Committee Member 2

Dengfeng Sun

Additional Committee Member 3

Kenshiro Oguri

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