Developing a systematic approach to the use of genetic algorithms for the solution of optimal spacecraft trajectory problems

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 127 PART 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 929-946

  Wall, Bradley J ^a,b   Conway, Bruce A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Dept of Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES;

AERODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORIES;

MECHANICS;

EID: 55549133271     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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