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Auteurs principaux: Burnett, Ethan R., Boone, Spencer
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author Burnett, Ethan R.
Boone, Spencer
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Boone, Spencer
contents This paper provides a comparative study of modern uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods. To greatly enhance real-time performance, both differential algebra (DA) and a directional differential algebra (DDA) approach are employed. This can enable fast UQ in the case of non-Gaussian statistics. Higher-order moments, namely skew and kurtosis, can be computed quickly by several means. This motivates their implementation in an analytic approximation of the confidence bounds for the so-called "banana-shaped" non-Gaussian distributions encountered often in nonlinear astrodynamics problems. This method improves greatly on a linear covariance approach, with only 5x its runtime in numerical tests, even before DA methods are employed. Test problems in this work include a restricted three-body cislunar example and an Earth-return aerocapture example.
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spellingShingle Efficient Nonlinear Uncertainty Quantification for Spaceflight Leveraging Nonlinear Expansions
Burnett, Ethan R.
Boone, Spencer
Systems and Control
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
This paper provides a comparative study of modern uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods. To greatly enhance real-time performance, both differential algebra (DA) and a directional differential algebra (DDA) approach are employed. This can enable fast UQ in the case of non-Gaussian statistics. Higher-order moments, namely skew and kurtosis, can be computed quickly by several means. This motivates their implementation in an analytic approximation of the confidence bounds for the so-called "banana-shaped" non-Gaussian distributions encountered often in nonlinear astrodynamics problems. This method improves greatly on a linear covariance approach, with only 5x its runtime in numerical tests, even before DA methods are employed. Test problems in this work include a restricted three-body cislunar example and an Earth-return aerocapture example.
title Efficient Nonlinear Uncertainty Quantification for Spaceflight Leveraging Nonlinear Expansions
topic Systems and Control
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24147