Minimal fuel consumption of electric propulsion space vehicles for deep space exploration
Reddy, B.B.R.
Esterline, A.C.
Homaifar, A.
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greenboro, NC;
This paper appears in: Aerospace Conference, 2006 IEEE
Publication Date: 0-0 0
On page(s): 7 pp.-
Location: Big Sky, MT,
ISBN: 0-7803-9545-X
INSPEC Accession Number: 9110052
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/AERO.2006.1655989
Current Version Published: 2006-07-24
Abstract
The objective of this research is to find a near optimal control strategy of an electric propulsion space vehicle to consume minimal fuel while traversing between two points in space. Micro genetic algorithms (GA) with the concept of Elitism is used to determine this optimal control
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