Space Engineering: Modeling and Optimization with Case Studies

Preface.- Model Space Vehicle Design Taking into Account Multidisciplinary Couplings and Mixed Epistemic / Aleatory Uncertainties.- Using Direct Transcription to Compute Optimal Low Thrust Transfers Between Libration Point Orbits.- Practical Tentative Solutions for Indirect Optimization of Spacecraft Trajectories.- Resource-constrained Scheduling with Non-constant Capacity and Non-regular Activities.- Packing Problems in Space Solved by CPLEX: an Experimental Analysis.- Designing Complex Interplanetary Trajectories for the Global Trajectory Optimization Competitions.- Satellite Constellation Image Acquisition Problem: A Case Study.- Re-entry Test Vehicle Configuration Selection and Analysis.- Rigorous Global Optimization for Collision Risk Assessment on Perturbed Orbits.- Optimal Robust Design of Hybrid Rocket Engines.- Nonlinear Regression Analysis by Global Optimization: A Case Study in Space Engineering.- Regression-based Sensitivity Analysis and Robust Design.- Low-Thrust Multi-Revolution Orbit Transfers.- Balance Layout Problems: Mathematical Modeling and Nonlinear Optimization.- Pilot-induced-oscillations Alleviation through Anti-Windup Based Approach.- Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid Transfers to NEOs.- Probabilistic Safety Analysis of the Collision Between Space Debris and a Satellite with an Island Particle Algorithm.- Flatness-based Low-thrust Trajectory Optimization for Spacecraft Proximity Operations.