MATLAB tool that designs an interplanetary mission given a set of constraints. Updated and tested on R2016b
Original paper: A Novel Application of Binary Integer Programming
Website: Interplanetary Trajectory Optimization
- Run
missionGUIfrom the command line. - Adjust the parameters, or keep the defaults.
- Click "Calculate", and wait for optimization to complete.
- After optimization is complete, click "Draw" to see the mission animation.
~~~~~~~~Travelling Spacecraft Problem~~~~~~~~
Start: Earth
End: Earth
Visiting: Mars
Start Date: 1/1/2018
Duration: 1080 days (2.96 years)
Time Step: 30 days
parallelOpt: 1
noIntOrbitOpt: 0
maxTransitOpt: 0
dtOption: 1
maxCost: 0
c3Option: 0
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Total number of variables: 2664
Estimated number of deltaV calculations: 1332
Calculating cost vector...
Calculations finished.
Elapsed time is 2.976715 seconds.
Reduced number of variables: 2069
Optimization started.
LP: Optimal objective value is 12.703566.
Optimal solution found.
Intlinprog stopped at the root node because the objective value is within a gap tolerance of the optimal value, options.AbsoluteGapTolerance = 0 (the default value). The
intcon variables are integer within tolerance, options.IntegerTolerance = 1e-05 (the default value).
Elapsed time is 0.025516 seconds.
Orbit Earth from 1/1/2018 until 5/1/2018.
Transit from Earth to Mars from 5/1/2018 until 11/27/2018.
Orbit Mars from 11/27/2018 until 6/19/2020.
Transit from Mars to Earth from 6/19/2020 until 12/16/2020.
Total cost: 12.7036