TRAJECTORY DESIGN BASED ON LOBE DYNAMICS WITH RESILIENCE TO MISSED THRUST EVENTS
PhDAER Seminar
March 13, 2026, from 12:00 until 13:00 - Sala Consiglio DAER, Building B12, 2nd Floor, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via la Masa 34, Milano
Trajectory design in cislunar space is challenging due to chaotic and nonlinear dynamics.
This talk focuses on lobe dynamics to reveal phase space transport. Lobe dynamics focuses on the "lobe", the region determined by stable and unstable manifolds of a resonant orbit.
Based on lobe dynamics, fuel-efficient transfers between the LEO and LLO are constructed.
In addition, this framework is extended to enable trajectory design resilient to missed thrust events by jointly designing nominal and recovery trajectories.
Speaker:
Naoki Hiraiwa received his Ph.D. from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2025 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
His research focuses on trajectory design based on dynamical systems theory and stochastic optimal control under uncertainty.
image (c) JAXA/ISAS