thesis/notes.md

Notes

Meeting with Bosanac (2021-09-15)

• Prioritize the flowcharts
• Be sure to include the error checking into the flowcharts
• look up Jacob Englander's PhD thesis for further background (UIUC)
• can begin reaching out to committee member to get a sense of availability in November in the next couple weeks
• Upload outline to the google drive

Refactor Notes (2021-09-25)

I need to determine the list of decision variables for each step:

• Defined by mission
  • Launch Window
  • Max launch C3
  • Max incoming C3 (or ||v∞||)
  • Latest arrival
• Decided by outer loop
  • Flyby choices
• Decided by inner loop
  • Launch date
  • Launch v∞_out
  • for each phase:
    • tof
    • v∞_in
    • turning angle
• Decided by NLP
  • thrust profile for each phase

Todo:

1. Add interpolate function
2. Add NLP solver sun test
3. Start on MBH

Refactor Notes (2021-09-26)

Todo:

1. Add mission validate function
2. Add turning angle function
3. Finish mbh
4. Test it

2020-02-11

• Look up Saturn mission launch masses for reference
• Begin thinking more about how to best represent the full trajectories on the paper. Possibilites include coloring, labeling, and arrows to represent thrust vectors
• investigate different C3 launch capabilites vs. sc mass for comparison

2020-02-25

• In the introduction, include some context for the existing literature. Compare to what people have done before and explain the goal in comparison to how it's based on someone else's, as well as the places where I've done things differently than the source work.
• Red/Green colorblindness problem in the plots
• Move table 7.1 to the beginning of Section 6 when the trajectories are introduced.
• Double check that the math is in the definitions of key points, for instance the cost function and the constraints to the NLP solver
• Double check that SPICE is being mentioned
• Include information about coordinate frames being used by SPICE
• Include how mass is being decremented in the SFT propagator section
• Think about how to include plots that show the MBH algorithm jumping through the space and looking at various basins.
• Porkchop plot
• Include some plots of the thrust vectors rather than the raw data in the appendix
  • Format dates better and include lines where the flybys are
  • Reconsider wording on analysis
  • Reconsider plotting the angles instead
• Submit thesis defense form

2020-03-11

Presentation Outline

45 minutes

• Introduction
• Motivation
• Context
• Scope
• Problem Statement
• Background - 10
• Approach - 10
• Result - 10