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Títol: Multi-gravity assist design tool for interplanetary trajectory optimisation


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Director/a: ALTMEYER, SEBASTIÁN ANDREAS

Departament: FIS

Títol: Multi-gravity assist design tool for interplanetary trajectory optimisation

Data inici oferta: 19-07-2022     Data finalització oferta: 19-03-2023



Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU AEROSPACE S&T 15
    MU AEROSPACE S&T 21
    MU MASTEAM 2015
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Multiple gravity assist, Flyby, Interplanetary trajectory, Optimization, Genetic algorithm
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
This project deals with the study and investigation of Multi-Planetary Gravitational Assist (MGA) trajectories for interplanetary and interstellar missions to approach other planets in our solar system and/or even other stars beyond it. As missions become increasingly complex, determining feasible trajectories quickly becomes a daunting task as these problems are extremely nonlinear, often with multiple strong basins of attraction in the neighborhood of optimal solutions, and are discontinuous when the planetary gravity-assist order is varied. The objective in this project will be to find a new (modified) approach, using a generic algorithm, for MGA problems. This new algorithm will be tested and compared with others nowadays already established algorithms.

The required software C, C++, Matlab, Python, ... is installed in the school virtual cluster (clufa), which will also be used to carry out the simulations for the project.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This master thesis presents the development of a genetic algorithm for optimizing multiplanetary gravity assist trajectories. The algorithm was designed to address the challenges of finding the most efficient trajectory for a spacecraft traveling into deep space
using multiple planets while performing gravity-assist maneuvers. Given a model for the
interplanetary trajectory, the algorithm is able to find a feasible optimal solution. The proposed approach was tested on a set of real missions and was shown to produce solutions
more optimal than the real ones given our trajectory model. The results demonstrate the
effectiveness of evolutionary algorithms, in concrete genetic algorithms, in finding optimal
multi-planetary gravity assist trajectories, making it a valuable tool for mission planning in
space exploration.


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