An optimal steering law for sailing with solar and planetary radiation pressure

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dc.contributor.authorBarles, Anaïs
dc.contributor.authorCeriotti, Matteo
dc.contributor.authorCiampa, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorFelicetti, Leonard
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-03T10:51:14Z
dc.date.available2021-09-03T10:51:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-25
dc.description.abstractAn optimal steering law for sails that exploit both solar and infrared planetary radiation pressure is presented in this paper. The optimal steering law maximises the orbit raise over one revolution of the sail around the planet. An indirect analytical approach, that uses Pontryagin Minimum Principle, is used to develop specialised steering laws for the sunlit and eclipse cases in a planar motion scenario. The law for the sunlit case uses both the solar and infrared radiation emitted from the planet, while the law for the eclipse case finds the optimal sail attitude that maximises the raise of the orbit using only the planetary radiation. Numerical results show that these laws lead to better performance in terms of orbit raising against other sub-optimal and optimal strategies exploiting the solar radiation pressure only. A numerical study is also carried out to show the effects of the reflectivity coefficient in the infrared band on the orbital motion of the sail.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationBarles A, Ceriotti M, Ciampa F, Felicetti L. (2021) An optimal steering law for sailing with solar and planetary radiation pressure. Aerospace Science and Technology, Volume 118, November 2021, Article number 107051en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1270-9638
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2021.107051
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17056
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectSolar sailen_UK
dc.subjectOptimal controlen_UK
dc.subjectPontryagin minimum principleen_UK
dc.subjectSolar radiationen_UK
dc.subjectPlanetary infrared radiationen_UK
dc.subjectOrbital dynamicsen_UK
dc.titleAn optimal steering law for sailing with solar and planetary radiation pressureen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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