Lihua Zhu1,*, Yu Wang1, Zhiqiang Wu1, Cheire Cheng2
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 291-303, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024252
Abstract The rapid developments of artificial intelligence in the last decade are influencing aerospace engineering to a great extent and research in this context is proliferating. In this paper, the trajectory optimization of a three-stage launch vehicle in the powering phase subject to the sun-synchronous orbit is considered. To solve the optimal control problem, the Gauss pseudo-spectral method (GPM) is used to transform the optimization model to a nonlinear programming (NLP) problem and sequential quadratic programming is applied to find the optimal solution. However, the sensitivity of the initial guess may cost the solver significant time to do the Newton iteration… More >