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Multi-objective optimal preliminary planning of multi-debris active removal mission in LEO

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The goal of this paper is to develop a preliminary plan for a multi-nanosatellite active debris removal platform (MnADRP) for low-Earth-orbit (LEO) missions. A dynamic multi-objective traveling salesman problem (TSP) scheme is proposed in which three optimization objectives, i.e., the debris removal priority, the MnADRP orbital transfer energy, and the number of required nanosatellites are modeled respectively. A modified genetic algorithm (GA) is also proposed to solve the dynamic multi-objective TSP. Finally, numerical experiments involving partially real-world the debris data set are conducted to verify the efficacy of the proposed models and the solution method.

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This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61503304, 61374162), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 3102015ZY048).

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  1. School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Yong Liu, Jianan Yang, Yizhou Wang & Quan Pan

  2. School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Jianping Yuan

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Liu, Y., Yang, J., Wang, Y. et al. Multi-objective optimal preliminary planning of multi-debris active removal mission in LEO. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 072202 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-0566-7

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