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This animation shows an optimal altitude increase for a spacecraft in orbit about the Earth. It compares a variational discretization with a simple Euler discretization. DMOC is expected to perform well for low thrust missions in which the energy budget is important. | |
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For more information, please see:
- Junge, O., J. E. Marsden, and S. Ober-Blöbaum [2005], Discrete mechanics and optimal control, Proc. IFAC Conf, Prague, June 2005.
- Junge, O., and S. Ober-Blöbaum [2005], Optimal Reconfiguration of Formation Flying Satellites, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005, Seville, Spain.
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