A Modified Dynamic Programming Approach for 4D Minimum Fuel and Emissions Trajectory Optimization

A soft dynamic programming approach for on-line aircraft 4D-trajectory optimization

Trajectory Optimization for a Multistage Launch Vehicle Using Nonlinear Programming

This work is an example of application of nonlinear programming to a problem of three-dimensional trajectory optimization for multistage launch vehicles for geostationary orbit missions. The main objective is to minimize fuel consumption or equivalently to maximize the payload. The launch vehicle considered here, Europa-II, consists of 5 thrust phases and 2 coast phases. Major parameters of the...

Minimum Fuel Trajectory in a 3/ D Time Scheduled Climb

A dynamic programming approach for solving nonlinear knapsack problems

Nonlinear Knapsack Problems (NKP) are the alternative formulation for the multiple-choice knapsack problems. A powerful approach for solving NKP is dynamic programming which may obtain the global op-timal solution even in the case of discrete solution space for these problems. Despite the power of this solu-tion approach, it computationally performs very slowly when the solution space of the pr...

Iterative dynamic programming: an approach to minimum energy trajectory planning for robotic manipulators

This paper proposes a technique of iterative dynamic programming to plan minimum energy consumption trajectories for robotic manipulators. The dynamic programming method is modijied to perform a series of dynamic programming passes over a small reconjgurable grid covering only a portion of the solution space at any one pass. Although strictly no longer a global optimization process, this iterat...