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A Systematic‐Heuristic Approach for Space Trajectory Design
Author(s) -
VASILE MASSIMILIANO
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1311.014
Subject(s) - heuristic , mathematical optimization , branching (polymer chemistry) , computer science , global optimization , space (punctuation) , population , mathematics , algorithm , materials science , demography , sociology , composite material , operating system
A bstract : In this paper a novel algorithm is proposed for space trajectory design that combines a systematic and a heuristic method for global optimization. For the systematic part of the algorithm a branching technique is used, whereas a particular implementation of evolution programming forms the core of the heuristic part. The idea is to use a limited population evolving for a small number of generations, according to specific evolution rules, in subregions of the solution space defined by a branching procedure. On the other hand the branching rules are functions of the outcome from the evolution optimization. The proposed combined systematic‐heuristic global optimization performs quite well on the cases analyzed in this paper, suggesting the possibility of more complex applications.