Orbital Averaging and Control Parametrization for Many-Revolution Low-Thrust Transfer Trajectory Optimization: With an Application to Active Debris Removal

With the increase in the use of Solar Electric Propulsion for Earth-centered applications, comes an additional challenge in the field of low-thrust spacecraft trajectory optimization. This MSc project implements a hybrid optimization approach, using control parametrization to reduce the number of optimization parameters and orbital averaging to...

Optimization based image registration in the presence of moving objects