27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.11.2

A NEW HYBRID DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH IN PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF AN AEROSPACE PLANE

T. Hanaoka
Atomi Univ., Japan

Keywords: aerospace plane, performance optimization, energy-state approximation, dynamic programming

A new hybrid dynamic programming algorithm for trajectory optimization is proposed. The application of this approach is exemplified by ascent trajectory optimization of an aerospace plane. The proposed algorithm makes systematically possible to obtain numerical solutions to achieve the minimum fuel climb to Low-Earth-Orbit under complicated constraints.

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