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\documentclass[defaultstyle,11pt]{thesis}
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\title{Designing Optimal Low-Thrust Interplanetary Trajectories Utilizing Monotonic Basin Hopping}
\author{Richard C.}{Johnstone}
\otherdegrees{B.S., Unviersity of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, 2016 \\
B.S., University of Kentucky, Physics, 2016}
\degree{Master of Science}{M.S., Aerospace Engineering}
\dept{Department of}{Aerospace Engineering}
\advisor{Prof.}{Natasha Bosanac}
\reader{Kathryn Davis}
\readerThree{Daniel Scheeres}
\abstract{ \OnePageChapter
There are a variety of approaches to finding and optimizing low-thrust trajectories in
interplanetary space. This thesis analyzes one such approach, namely the application of a
Monotonic Basin Hopping (MBH) algorithm to a series of Sims-Flanagan transcribed trajectory arcs
and its applications in a multiple-shooting non-linear solver for the purpose of finding valid
low-thrust trajectories between planets given poor initial conditions. These valid arcs are then
fed into the MBH algorithm, which combines them in order to find and optimize interplanetary
trajectories, given a set of flyby planets. This allows for a fairly rapid searching of a very
large solution space of low-thrust profiles via a medium fidelity inner-loop solver and a
well-suited optimization routine. The trajectories found by this method can then be optimized
further by feeding the solutions back, once again, into the non-linear solver, this time
allowing the solver to perform optimization.
}
\dedication[Dedication]{
Dedicated to some people.
}
\acknowledgements{ \OnePageChapter
This will be an acknowledgement.
}
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