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Conway, Bruce A. Aubin, Brianna S. 2011-05-25T15:03:01Z 2011-05-25T15:03:01Z 2011-05-25T15:03:01Z 2011-05 Satellite clusters are a useful tool to improve mission cost-effectiveness and redundancy, but controlling the satellites within the cluster is a difficult task. The particle swarm evolutionary algorithm is used to find ways to minimize the amount of fuel required for impulsive transfers between periodic orbits in the relative motion problem. Relative orbit elements are used in order to create the solution vectors for the particle swarm, and the Clohessy-Wiltshire-Hill equations are used to define the motion of the satellites. These trajectories are then analyzed according to primer vector theory, in order to check the optimality of the trajectories developed via the particle swarm algorithm and determine if they may be improved. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-03-11T23:00:10Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Aubin_Brianna.pdf: 1415871 bytes, checksum: bab2f2979d4f6dca37b47eb2b58e107b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T15:03:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Aubin_Brianna.pdf: 1415871 bytes, checksum: bab2f2979d4f6dca37b47eb2b58e107b (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 2157791e6ad4e2574351858a047f9f4c (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24011 en Copyright 2011 Brianna S. Aubin relative orbits Clohessy Wiltshire primer vector particle swarm relative orbit elements evolutionary algorithms satellite swarm Optimization of relative orbit transfers via particle swarm and primer vector theory Aerospace Engineering 1615 Aerospace Engineering 4048 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS: Aerospace Engr -UIUC 10KS4048MS