Trajectory Optimization of a Hypersonic Airplane

  • Takano, H. (National Defense Academy) ;
  • Baba, Y. (National Defense Academy)
  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

Hypersonic civil airplanes are recently heated up again in USA and Japan, but there are several difficulties when we obtain its optimal trajectories. In this paper, we formulated the trajectory optimization problem as an optimal control problem and solved it by the direct shooting method with the Genetic Algorithm, GA. The result shows it is effective to use this method for the trajectory optimization of the hypersonic flight.

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