Trajectory optimization to minimize the environmental impact of departing and arriving aircraft

The aviation industry faces the challenge of reducing its climate eects. This paper aims to determine whether optimizing flight trajectories can reduce the environmental impact of aircraft during the climb and descent phases. It addresses the research gap in sustainable flight trajectory optimization by combining state-of-the-art research on...

Distributed Collision Free Trajectory Optimization for the Reconfiguration of a Spacecraft Formation

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in formation flying with many lightweight spacecraft, as satellite missions can potentially become cheaper and more flexible. An example of such mission is the Silicon Wafer Integrated Femtosatellites mission, consisting of 100 to 1000 spacecraft with a mass of 0.1 kg. Due to modest control...