SERGIO CUEVAS DEL VALLE; PABLO SOLANO-LÓPEZ; HODEI URRUTXUA
DOI Number: 10.13009/EUCASS2023-057
This work develops a new cost-efficient solver to formulate fuel-optimal control problems: in particular, Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers and Model Predictive Control are used to close the gap between L1 and L2 optimization in classical astrodynamics problems. The combination of these two algorithms allows to render general NLP fuel-optimal problems solvable by Linear Programming techniques independently of the fuel-consumption proxy used. Moreover, their low footprint makes them a solid candidate for real-time, embedded applications. These novel techniques are applied to several rendezvous and orbital transfer test cases in both the Keplerian and the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problems, together with impulsive attitude slews.
