Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits

The concept of solar sailing and its developing spacecraft is presented. The gravitational and solar radiation forces are considered. The effect of source of radiation pressure and the force due to coronal mass ejections and solar wind on the sailcraft configurations is modeled. Some analytical cont...

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Main Author: F. A. Abd El-Salam
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/353056
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description The concept of solar sailing and its developing spacecraft is presented. The gravitational and solar radiation forces are considered. The effect of source of radiation pressure and the force due to coronal mass ejections and solar wind on the sailcraft configurations is modeled. Some analytical control laws with some mentioned input constraints for optimizing sailcraft dynamics in heliocentric orbit using lagrange’s planetary equations are obtained. Optimum force vector in a required direction is maximized by deriving optimal sail cone angle. Ignoring the absorbed and diffusely reflected parts of the radiation, some special cases are obtained. New control laws that maximize thrust to obtain certain required maximization in some particular orbital element are obtained.
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spelling doaj-art-40aeb5ac91dc422b9378b7d60d65a6bf2025-08-20T02:39:12ZengWileyJournal of Applied Mathematics1110-757X1687-00422013-01-01201310.1155/2013/353056353056Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric OrbitsF. A. Abd El-Salam0Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Al-Madinah 433, Saudi ArabiaThe concept of solar sailing and its developing spacecraft is presented. The gravitational and solar radiation forces are considered. The effect of source of radiation pressure and the force due to coronal mass ejections and solar wind on the sailcraft configurations is modeled. Some analytical control laws with some mentioned input constraints for optimizing sailcraft dynamics in heliocentric orbit using lagrange’s planetary equations are obtained. Optimum force vector in a required direction is maximized by deriving optimal sail cone angle. Ignoring the absorbed and diffusely reflected parts of the radiation, some special cases are obtained. New control laws that maximize thrust to obtain certain required maximization in some particular orbital element are obtained.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/353056
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Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
Journal of Applied Mathematics
title Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
title_full Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
title_fullStr Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
title_full_unstemmed Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
title_short Some New Locally Optimal Control Laws for Sailcraft Dynamics in Heliocentric Orbits
title_sort some new locally optimal control laws for sailcraft dynamics in heliocentric orbits
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/353056
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