Re-entry trajectory optimization using a multiple-interval Radau pseudospectral method |
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Authors: | HAN Peng SHAN Jia-yuan and MENG Xiu-yun |
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Affiliation: | Key Laboratory of Dynamic and Control of Flight Vehicle, Ministry of Education,Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China |
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Abstract: | Aiming at increasing the calculation efficiency of the pseudospectral methods, a multiple-interval Radau pseudospectral method (RPM) is presented to generate a reusable launch vehicle (RLV)'s optimal re-entry trajectory. After dividing the optimal control problem into many intervals, the state and control variables are approximated using many fixed- and low-degree Lagrange polynomials in each interval. Convergence of the numerical discretization is then achieved by increasing the number of intervals. With the application of the proposed method, the normal nonlinear programming (NLP) problem transcribed from the optimal control problem can avoid being dense because of the low-degree approximation polynomials in each interval. Thus, the NLP solver can easily compute a solution. Finally, simulation results show that the optimized re-entry trajectories satisfy the path constraints and the boundary constraints successfully. Compared with the single interval RPM, the multiple-interval RPM is significantly faster and has higher calculation efficiency. The results indicate that the multiple-interval RPM can be applied for real-time trajectory generation due to its high efficiency and high precision. |
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Keywords: | reusable launch vehicle (RLV) trajectory optimization calculation efficiency multiple-interval Radau pseudospectral method (RPM) |
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