@Article{cmes.2016.111.001,
AUTHOR = {Darin  Koblick, Shujing  Xu, Joshua  Fogel, Praveen  Shankar},
TITLE = {Low Thrust Minimum Time Orbit Transfer Nonlinear Optimization Using Impulse Discretization via the Modified Picard–Chebyshev Method},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {111},
YEAR = {2016},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--27},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v111n1/27312},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {The Modified Picard-Chebyshev Method (MPCM) is implemented as an orbit propagation solver for a numerical optimization method that determines minimum time orbit transfer trajectory of a satellite using a series of multiple impulses at intermediate waypoints. The waypoints correspond to instantaneous impulses that are determined using a nonlinear constrained optimization routine, SNOPT with numerical force models for both Two-Body and J2 perturbations. It is found that using the MPCM increases run-time performance of the discretized lowthrust optimization method when compared to other sequential numerical solvers, such as Adams-Bashforth-Moulton and Gauss-Jackson 8th order methods.},
DOI = {10.3970/cmes.2016.111.001}
}