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2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

多体系における低推力推進式宇宙機の重力アシスト軌道の自動設計

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14F04210
Research InstitutionJapan Aerospace EXploration Agency

Principal Investigator

川勝 康弘  国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, 宇宙科学研究所, 准教授 (80373439)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAM CHIT HONG  国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, 宇宙科学研究所, 外国人特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-25 – 2017-03-31
KeywordsSpace orbit design / Multi-body systems / Low-thrust trajectories / Optimization
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The research focuses on the design of low-thrust trajectories in multi-body systems. The goal is to develop robust tools and methods which can be applied to a wide range of missions, such as a deep space mission with encounters at multiple celestial bodies, Earth-Moon libration point missions. The research can improve the current design process and help finding better results for future space missions, thus saving total mission cost and extending the potential capability of a mission.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

The following achievements have been made during the 2015-2016 period.
1) Implemented and tested a high fidelity low-thrust trajectory design tool GALLOP. Results presented at the International Symposium on Space Technology and Science in Kobe.
2) Applied the tool to design future space missions: DESTINY+ visiting the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, and the Maritain sample return mission MMX. Results presented at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, USA.
3) Extended the research work to study the two-point boundary-value problem of low-thrust trajectories, which can serve as a basis to help improving the current optimization methods. Results presented at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, USA.
4) Collaborated with the European Space Agency to participate in the 8th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition and won the champion of the contest among 30 teams in the world.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The high fidelity, multi-body orbital design tool will be applied to design the Earth-Moon transfer of the small satellite mission EQUULEUS and the lunar lander OMOTENASHI, which will be launched in 2018 with the NASA Space Launch System rocket. Preliminary analysis will be done by the summer of 2016. Research results will be presented in an international conference and published as a peer-reviewed journal article.

  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2016 2015

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Parallelization Impact on Many-Objective Optimization for Space Trajectory Design2016

    • Author(s)
      Schlueter, M., Yam, C. H., Watanabe, T., Oyama, A.
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing

      Volume: Volume 6 Number 1 Pages: 9-14

    • DOI

      10.18178/ijmlc.2016.6.1.563

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Feasibility Regions of Boundary Value Problems of Low-Thrust Trajectories2016

    • Author(s)
      Yam, C. H., Campagnola, S., Kawakatsu, Y., Shing, M. T.
    • Organizer
      26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Napa, CA, U.S.A
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-14 – 2016-02-18
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Low-Thrust Trajectory Design for the DESTINY Mission to 3200 Phaethon2016

    • Author(s)
      Sarli, B. V., Yam, C. H., Horikawa, M., Kawakatsu, Y.
    • Organizer
      26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Napa, CA, U.S.A
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-14 – 2016-02-18
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Stochastic Differential Dynamic Programming for Low-Thrust Trajectory Design with State Uncertainty2016

    • Author(s)
      Ozaki, N., Funase, R., Campagnola, S., Yam, C. H.
    • Organizer
      26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Napa, CA, U.S.A
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-14 – 2016-02-18
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] GTOC8: Results and Methods of ESA Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA-ISAS2016

    • Author(s)
      Izzo, D., Hennes, D., Martens, M., Getzner, I., Nowak, K., Hefferman, A., Campanola, S., Yam, C. H., Ozaki, N., Sugimoto, Y.
    • Organizer
      26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Napa, CA, U.S.A
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-14 – 2016-02-18
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] GALLOP: A Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Tool for Preliminary and High Fidelity Mission Design2015

    • Author(s)
      Yam, C. H., and Kawakatsu, Y.
    • Organizer
      nternational Symposium on Space Technology and Science
    • Place of Presentation
      Kobe, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-04 – 2015-07-10
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Many-Objective Optimization of Interplanetary Space Mission Trajectories2015

    • Author(s)
      Schlueter, M., Yam, C. H., Watanabe, T., Oyama, A.
    • Organizer
      IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
    • Place of Presentation
      Sendai, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-25 – 2015-05-28
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2016-12-27  

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