J.L. Read1, A. Bani Younes2, J.L. Junkins3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.111, No.1, pp. 65-81, 2016, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2016.111.065
Abstract This paper focuses on propagating perturbed two-body motion using orbital elements combined with a novel integration technique. While previous studies show that Modified Chebyshev Picard Iteration (MCPI) is a powerful tool used to propagate position and velocity, the present results show that using orbital elements to propagate the state vector reduces the number of MCPI iterations and nodes required, which is especially useful for reducing the computation time when including computationally-intensive calculations such as Spherical Harmonic gravity, and it also converges for > 5.5x as many revolutions using a single segment when compared with cartesian propagation. Results for the Classical… More >
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