Simultaneous Sizing of a Rocket Family with Embedded Trajectory Optimization

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Main Authors: Jo, Byeong-Un, Ho, Koki
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Published: 2023
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author Jo, Byeong-Un
Ho, Koki
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Ho, Koki
contents This paper presents a sizing procedure for a rocket family capable of fulfilling multiple missions, considering the commonalities between the vehicles. The procedure aims to take full advantage of sharing a common part across multiple rockets whose payload capability differs entirely, ultimately leading to cost savings in designing a rocket family. As the foundation of the proposed rocket family design method, an integrated sizing method with trajectory optimization for a single rocket is first formulated as a single optimal control problem. This formulation can find the optimal sizing along with trajectory results in a tractable manner. Building upon this formulation, the proposed rocket family design method is developed to 1) determine the feasible design space of the rocket family design problem (i.e., commonality check), and 2) if a feasible design space is determined to exist, minimize the cost function within that feasible space by solving an optimization problem in which the optimal control problem is embedded as a subproblem. A case study is carried out on a rocket family composed of expendable and reusable launchers to demonstrate the novelty of the proposed procedure.
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spellingShingle Simultaneous Sizing of a Rocket Family with Embedded Trajectory Optimization
Jo, Byeong-Un
Ho, Koki
Optimization and Control
This paper presents a sizing procedure for a rocket family capable of fulfilling multiple missions, considering the commonalities between the vehicles. The procedure aims to take full advantage of sharing a common part across multiple rockets whose payload capability differs entirely, ultimately leading to cost savings in designing a rocket family. As the foundation of the proposed rocket family design method, an integrated sizing method with trajectory optimization for a single rocket is first formulated as a single optimal control problem. This formulation can find the optimal sizing along with trajectory results in a tractable manner. Building upon this formulation, the proposed rocket family design method is developed to 1) determine the feasible design space of the rocket family design problem (i.e., commonality check), and 2) if a feasible design space is determined to exist, minimize the cost function within that feasible space by solving an optimization problem in which the optimal control problem is embedded as a subproblem. A case study is carried out on a rocket family composed of expendable and reusable launchers to demonstrate the novelty of the proposed procedure.
title Simultaneous Sizing of a Rocket Family with Embedded Trajectory Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12900