Forest fires cause a significant amount of damage and destruction each year. Optimally dispatching resources reduces the amount of damage a forest fire can cause. Models predict the fire spread to provide the data required to optimally dispatch resources. However, the models are only as accurate as the data used to build them. Satellites are one valuable tool in the collection of data for the forest fire models. Satellites provide data on the types of vegetation, the wind speed and direction, the soil moisture content, etc. The current operating paradigm is to passively collect data when possible. However, images from directly overhead provide better resolution and are easier to process. Maneuvering a constellation of satellites to fly directly over the forest fire provides higher quality data than is achieved with the current operating paradigm. Before launch, the location of the forest fire is unknown. Therefore, it is impossible to optimize the initial orbits for the satellites. Instead, the expected cost of maneuvering to observe the forest fire determines the optimal initial orbits. A two-stage stochastic programming approach is well suited for this class of problem where initial decisions are made with an uncertain future and then subsequent decisions are made once a scenario is realized. A repeat ground track orbit provides a non-maneuvering, natural solution providing a daily flyover of the forest fire. However, additional maneuvers provide a second daily flyover of the forest fire. The additional maneuvering comes at a significant cost in terms of additional fuel, but provides more data collection opportunities. After data are collected, ground stations receive the data for processing. Optimally selecting the ground station locations reduce the number of built ground stations and reduces the data fusion issues. However, the location of the forest fire alters the optimal ground station sites. A two-stage stochastic programming approach optimizes the selection of ground stations to maximize the expected amount of data downloaded from a satellite. The approaches of selecting initial orbits and ground station locations including uncertainty will provide a robust system to reduce the amount of damage caused by forest fires.

In the past two decades policy assisting computer models have made a tremendous impact in the analysis of national security issues and the analysis of problems in various government affairs. SURMAN (Survivability Management) is a policy assisting model that has been developed for use in national security planning. It is a large scale model formulated using the system dynamics approach of treating a problem in its entirety rather than in parts. In this thesis, an encapsulation of SURMAN is attempted so as to sharpen and focus its ability to perform policy/design evaluation. It is also aimed to make SURMAN more accessible to potential users and to provide a simple tool to the decision makers without having to resort to the mainframe computers. To achieve these objectives a personal/microcomputer version of SURMAN (PC SURMAN) and a series of curves relating inputs to outputs are developed. PC SURMAN reduces the complexity of SURMAN by dealing with generic aircraft. It details the essential survivability management parameters and their causal relationships through the life-cycle of aircraft systems. The model strives to link the decision parameters (inputs) to the measures of effectiveness (outputs). The principal decision variables identified are survivability, availability, and inventory of the aircraft system. The measures of effectiveness identified are the Increase Payload Delivered to Target Per Loss (ITDPL), Cost Elasticity of Targets Destroyed Per Loss (CETDPL), Combat Value Ratio (COMVR), Kill to Loss Ratio (KLR), and Decreased Program Life-Cycle Cost (DPLCC). The model provides an opportunity for trading off decision parameters. The trading off of survivability enhancement techniques and the defense budget allocation parameters for selecting those techniques/parameters with higher benefits and lower penalties are discussed. The information relating inputs to outputs for the tradeoff analysis is presented graphically using curves derived from experimentally designed computer runs. / M.S.

Le prochain secteur à être fortement automatisé est sans doute celui du transport routier. D’abord en environnement peu complexe comme c’est déjà le cas sur autoroute, puis à terme dans les scénarios les plus difficiles, comme ceux rencontrés au coeur du trafic urbain. Une étape intermédiaire consiste à introduire des véhicules autonomes en milieu urbain, mais hors du trafic, comme sur des sites fermés. Ces environnements présentent des caractéristiques particulières, comme un encombrement important. Alors, pour être en mesure de naviguer en toute autonomie, les véhicules doivent être à la fois agiles, précis et sûrs, mais aussi efficaces, donc rapides. Ce travail de thèse adresse deux problématiques clés de la navigation autonome en milieu encombré : la planification et le suivi de chemin pour les véhicules à deux trains directeurs (4WS). En effet, la cinématique 4WS est la réponse des constructeurs au besoin d’agilité et nécessite le développement de techniques de commande adaptées. La planification de chemin en temps-réel permet l’évitement d’obstacles, de façon à rendre le service robuste aux aléas de l’environnement. Le contrôle automatique de la direction permet ensuite de suivre ces chemins avec précision. La principale difficulté concernant la planification de chemin est le contraste entre la faible puissance de calcul embarquée sur le véhicule et la forte contrainte temporelle qu’impose le besoin de réactivité. Il s’agit donc de choisir l’approche adéquate et de mettre en place les simplifications algorithmiques les plus efficaces, c’est-à-dire qui réduisent la quantité de calculs nécessaires sans réduire la qualité des chemins générés. De plus, la planification de chemin en milieu encombré pose le problème des impasses dans lesquelles les méthodes les plus réactives restent coincées. De fait, l’approche retenue consiste à construire une fonction de navigation en deux dimensions dont est extrait le chemin. Au sens des critères choisis, il est optimal pour un véhicule circulaire. Des stratégies sont alors mises en place pour adapter cet algorithme aux véhicules 4WS de forme rectangulaire, comme la notion centrale de double-chemin qui permet de représenter la trajectoire d’un mobile à trois degrés de liberté dans un espace en deux dimensions. Enfin, d’autres stratégies et heuristiques sont introduites pour optimiser les performances de l’algorithme de planification et lui permettre de générer des manoeuvres efficaces. Concernant le développement du contrôleur de direction, il s’agit de choisir le modèle d’évolution qui retranscrit au mieux le comportement du véhicule vis-à-vis du double chemin qu’il doit suivre, puis d’en déduire les lois de commande des trains avant et arrière. Ayant été éprouvé par de nombreux travaux, le modèle bicyclette 4WS a été choisi. Ce modèle cinématique permet d’introduire facilement des angles de dérive utiles à la compensation des glissements des pneus sur le sol, qu’ils soient dus à un manque d’adhérence ou à une géométrie imparfaite des trains. Des lois de commande par retour d’état sont ensuite synthétisées et une stratégie de gestion de la saturation des actionneurs est proposée. Enfin, ce premier contrôleur est décliné en une version prédictive qui apporte un suivi de chemin d’une grande stabilité sur les véhicules réels. Les contributions ont toutes été évaluées en simulation et lors d’expérimentations en vraie grandeur sur l’EZ10, une navette électrique 4WS industrielle. Enfin, il se trouve que les performances obtenues dépassent les attentes initiales. / The next sector to be highly automated is probably road transport. First in an uncomplicated environment as is already the case on highway, then eventually in the most difficult scenarios, such as those encountered at the heart of the urban traffic. An intermediate step is to introduce autonomous vehicles in urban areas, but outside traffic, as on closed sites. These environments have particular characteristics, they can be very cluttered. So to be able to navigate autonomously, the vehicles have to be agile, precise and safe, but also efficient, i.e. fast. This thesis addresses two key issues of autonomous navigation in cluttered environments: path planning and tracking for bi-steerable (4WS) vehicles. Indeed, the 4WS kinematics is the response of the manufacturers to the need for agility and requires the development of adapted control techniques. Real-time path planning allows the avoidance of obstacles in order to make the service robust to the vagaries of the environment. The automatic control of the direction then makes it possible to follow these paths with precision. The main difficulty about path planning is the contrast between the low onboard computing power and the high temporal constraints imposed by the need for reactivity. It is thus necessary to choose the appropriate approach and to implement the most efficient algorithmic simplifications, i.e. reducing the amount of calculations without reducing the quality of the generated paths. In addition, path planning in cluttered environment raises the problem of dead-ends in which the most reactive methods remain stuck. Then, the adopted approach consists in constructing a navigation function in two dimensions from which the path is extracted. In the sense of the chosen criteria, it is optimal for a circular vehicle. Strategies are then put in place to adapt this algorithm to 4WS vehicles of rectangular shape, such as the central dual-path concept which allows to represent the trajectory of a mobile with three degrees of freedom in a two-dimensional space. Finally, other strategies and heuristics are introduced to optimize the performance of the planning algorithm and allow it to generate efficient maneuvers. Concerning the development of the controller, it is about choosing the evolution model which best reflects the behavior of the vehicle with respect to the dual-path that it must follow and then deducing the front and rear control laws. The 4WS bicycle model has shown itself to be very effective. This kinematic model makes it possible to easily introduce useful side-slip angles allowing to compensate the slippage of the tires on the ground, whether due to a lack of grip or an imperfect geometry of the axles. State feedback control laws are then synthesized and a strategy for managing the saturation of the actuators is proposed. Finally, this first controller is declined in a predictive version that provides a very stable tracking on real vehicles.The contributions were all evaluated in simulation and in full-scale experiments on the EZ10, an industrial 4WS electric shuttle. Finally, it turns out that the performances exceed initial expectations.

Simulation of maneuvers with multibody models of rotorcraft vehicles is an important research area due to its complexity. During the maneuvering flight, some important design limitations are encountered such as maximum loads and maximum turning rates near the proximity of the flight envelope. This increases the demand on high fidelity models in order to define appropriate controls to steer the model close to the desired trajectory while staying inside the boundaries. A framework based on the hierarchical decomposition of the problem is used for this study. The system should be capable of generating the track by itself based on the given criteria and also capable of piloting the model of the vehicle along this track. The generated track must be compatible with the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle. Defining the constraints for the maneuver is of crucial importance when the vehicle is operating close to its performance boundaries. In order to make the problem computationally feasible, two models of the same vehicle are used where the reduced model captures the coarse level flight dynamics, while the fine scale comprehensive model represents the plant. The problem is defined by introducing planning layer and control layer strategies. The planning layer stands for solving the optimal control problem for a specific maneuver of a reduced vehicle model. The control layer takes the resulting optimal trajectory as an optimal reference path, then tracks it by using a non-linear model predictive formulation and accordingly steers the multibody model. Reduced models for the planning and tracking layers are adapted by using neural network approach online to optimize the predictive capabilities of planner and tracker. Optimal neural network architecture is obtained to augment the reduced model in the best way. The methodology of adaptive learning rate is experimented with different strategies. Some useful training modes and algorithms are proposed for these type of applications. It is observed that the neural network increased the predictive capabilities of the reduced model in a robust way. The proposed framework is demonstrated on a maneuvering problem by studying an obstacle avoidance example with violent pull-up and pull-down.

Docking maneuvers are a relevant part of the modern space mission, requiring precision and safety to ensure the success of the overall mission. This thesis proposes using a non-linear Model Predictive Control (MPC) as a controller with various constraints to ensure safe docking maneuvers for a satellite. This was done in MATLAB using as a model for the satellite the Sliders used by the Robotics Lab at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). The controller was tested first on the MATLAB model and then briefly on hardware.The main objective of this thesis is to develop and implement an MPC-based control strategy to achieve safe docking maneuvers between two satellites. Great attention has been paid to implementing constraints, such as collision avoidance, and hardware constraints, such as thrust limits, to ensure the safety and reliability of the process.Through the MATLAB simulations, it was possible to indicate that the introduced constraints contribute significantly to the safe execution of docking maneuvers, preventing collisions, andoptimizing fuel usage. The controller successfully adapts to unforeseen disturbances and uncertainties in real-time, showcasing its robustness and reliability in dynamic space environments.The hardware simulations have shown that the controller operates as expected but needs further tuning to adapt to the hardware uncertainties.In conclusion, this thesis comprehensively explores MPC-based control strategies with constraints for space docking maneuvers. The positive results underscore this approach’s potential to ensure the safety and reliability of future space missions, opening avenues for further research and application in autonomous space systems.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / This study identifies factors affecting the performance of commercial-off-the-shelf speech recognition software (SRS) when used for ship control purposes. After a review of research in the feasibility and acceptability of SRS-based ship control, the paper examines the effects of: "A restricted vocabulary versus a large vocabulary," Low experience level conning officers versus high experience level conning officers, "Male versus female voices," Pre-test training on specific words versus no pre-test training. Controlled experimentation finds that: "The experience level of a conning officer has no significant impact on SRS performance." Female participants experienced more SRS errors than did their male counterparts. However, in this experiment, only a limited number of trials were available to assess a difference. "SRS with restricted vocabulary performs no better than SRS with large vocabularies." Using the software "correct as you go" feature may impact software performance. Following the user profile establishment, individual user training on two specific words reduces error rates significantly. This study concludes that SRS is a viable technology for ship control and merits further testing and evaluation. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

La résonance magnétique cardiovasculaire sensible à l'oxygénation (OS-CMR) est devenue une modalité d'imagerie diagnostique pour la surveillance de changements dans l'oxygénation du myocarde. Cette technique offre un grand potentiel en tant qu'outil diagnostic primaire pour les maladies cardiovasculaires, en particulier la détection non-invasive d'ischémie. Par contre, il existe plusieurs facteurs potentiellement confondants de cette technique, quelques-uns d'ordre méthodologique comme les paramètres de séquençage et d'autres de nature physiologiques qui sont peut compris. En raison des effets causés par le contenu tissulaire d'eau, l'état d'hydratation peut avoir un impact sur l'intensité du signal. Ceci est un des aspects physiologiques en particulier dont nous voulions quantifier l'effet confondant par la manipulation de l'état d'hydratation chez des humains et l'observation des changements de l'intensité du signal dans des images OS-CMR. Méthodes: In vitro: Du sang artériel et veineux de huit porcs a été utilisé pour évaluer la dilution en série du sang et son effet correspondant sur l'intensité du signal de la séquence OS. In vivo: Vingt-deux volontaires en santé ont subi OS-CMR. Les concentrations d'hémoglobine (Hb) ont été mesurées au niveau de base et immédiatement après une l'infusion cristalloïde rapide de 1000 mL de solution Lactate Ringer's (LRS). Les images OS-CMR ont été prises dans une vue mid-ventriculaire court axe. L'intensité du signal myocardique a été mesurée durant une rétention respiratoire volontaire maximale, suite à une période d'hyperventilation de 60 secondes. Les changements dans l'intensité du signal entre le début et la fin de la rétention de la respiration ont été exprimés relativement au niveau de base (% de changement). Résultats: L'infusion a résulté en une diminution significative de l'Hb mesurée (142.5±3.3 vs. 128.8±3.3 g/L; p<0.001), alors que l'IS a augmenté de 3.2±1.2% entre les images du niveau de base en normo- et hypervolémie (p<0.05). L'IS d'hyperventilation ainsi que les changements d'IS induits par l'apnée ont été attenués après hémodilution (p<0.05). L'évaluation quantitative T2* a démontré une corrélation négative entre le temps de T2* et la concentration d'hémoglobine (r=-0.46, p<0.005). Conclusions: Il existe plusieurs éléments confondants de la technique OS-CMR qui requièrent de l'attention et de l'optimisation pour une future implémentation clinique à grande échelle. Le statut d'hydratation en particulier pourrait être un élément confondant dans l'imagerie OS-CMR. L'hypervolémie mène à une augmentation en IS au niveau de base et atténue la réponse IS durant des manoeuvres de respiration vasoactives. Cette atténuation de l'intensité du signal devrait être tenue en compte et corrigée dans l'évaluation clinique d'images OS-CMR. / Background: Oxygenation-sensitive cardiovascular magnetic resonance (OS-CMR) has become a feasible diagnostic imaging modality for monitoring changes of myocardial oxygenation. This technique has great potential for use as a primary diagnostic tool for cardiovascular disease, particularly non-invasive detection of ischemia. Yet, there are several potential confounding factors of this technique, some methodological, such as sequence parameters and others are physiological and not well understood. Due to T2 effects caused by tissue water content, the hydration status may impact signal intensity. This is one physiological aspect in particular that we aimed at quantifying the confounding effect by manipulating hydration status in humans and observing signal intensity (SI) changes in OS-CMR images. Methods: In vitro: Arterial and venous blood from eight swine were used to assess serial dilution of blood and it corresponding effect on OS sequence signal intensity. In vivo: Twenty-two healthy volunteers underwent OS-CMR. Hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations were measured at baseline and immediately following rapid crystalloid infusion of 1,000ml of Lactated Ringer’s solution (LRS). OS-CMR images were acquired in a mid-ventricular short axis view. Myocardial SI was measured during a maximal voluntary breath-hold, after a 60-second period of hyperventilation. SI changes were expressed relative to baseline (% change). Results: The infusion resulted in a significant decrease in measured Hb (142.5±3.3 vs. 128.8±3.3 g/L; p<0.001), while SI increased by 3.2±1.2% between baseline images at normo- and hypervolemia (p<0.05). Both hyperventilation SI and the SI changes induced by apnea were attenuated after hemodilution (p<0.05). Quantitative assessment showed a negative correlation between T2* and hemoglobin concentration (r=-0.46, p<0.005). Conclusions: There are several confounders to the OS-CMR technique that require attention and optimization for future larger scale clinical implementation. The hydration status in particular may be a confounder in OS-CMR imaging. Hypervolemia leads to an increase in SI at baseline and attenuates the SI response during vasoactive breathing maneuvers. This attenuation in signal intensity would need to be accounted for and corrected in clinical assessment of OS-CMR images.

L'agriculture est un secteur d'activité qui est confronté aujourd'hui à des objectifs d'accroissement de productivité pour subvenir aux besoins alimentaires de la population mondiale en pleine explosion démographique. Cependant, cette activité sollicite fortement les biens environnementaux tels que l'eau et le sol, et des solutions sont aujourd'hui recherchées pour limiter l'incidence des pratiques agricoles sur l'environnement. Les systèmes de guidage des véhicules agricoles font partie de ces nouvelles technologies qui contribuent à cet objectif, en offrant la possibilité d'assurer la précision du suivi des trajectoires dans les parcelles, et de favoriser ainsi l'efficacité et la qualité du travail agronomique réalisé. Des fonctionnalités essentielles font néanmoins aujourd'hui défaut à ces systèmes. Citons la capacité à compenser la marche en crabe du véhicule sur les terrains glissants en pente, la capacité à contrôler les trajectoires des outils agricoles traînés, et la capacité à effectuer certaines manoeuvres en zone de fourrière. Ce travail de thèse aborde l'ensemble de ces problématiques au travers l'étude de la commande en milieu naturel de robot mobile poly-articulé à roues (RMPA), composé d'un véhicule " tracteur " à deux trains directeurs associé à n remorques passives à attache déportée. Une modélisation cinématique étendue est d'abord adoptée pour tenir compte des effets induits par les faibles conditions d'adhérence sur le comportement global du RMPA. Les variables de glissement introduites sur chacun des trains directeurs et roulants sont estimées à l'aide d'un observateur bâti à la manière d'une loi de commande. La trajectoire de référence à suivre gamma est quant à elle préalablement apprise ou construite à l'aide de primitives élémentaires et d'arcs de clothoïdes pour générer les manoeuvres de demi-tour. En premier lieu, les deux trains directeurs du RMPA sont exploités pour contrôler avec précision non seulement l'écart latéral mais également l'écart angulaire du véhicule " tracteur " par rapport à gamma : la commande du train directeur avant est basée sur la transformation du modèle en un système chaîné, conduisant à un découplage exact des performances latérales et longitudinales, puis sur des techniques de linéarisation exacte pour assurer la régulation latérale. La commande du train directeur arrière se base sur la dynamique de l'écart angulaire pour compenser les glissements et asservir cet écart sur le point de fonctionnement choisi. En second lieu, ces commandes sont étendues pour asservir latéralement la ieme remorque du RMPA le long de gamma : une approche en cascade est utilisée pour traduire une commande virtuelle de la ieme remorque en terme de commande du train directeur avant du véhicule " tracteur ". La commande longitudinale du RMPA est quant à elle basée sur une stratégie de commande prédictive à modèle interne, afin de suivre avec précision le profil de vitesse associé à gamma. De nombreuses expérimentations en conditions réelles, effectuées sur un RMPA composé d'un véhicule " tracteur " à deux trains directeurs et d'une remorque passive à attache déportée, viennent valider les différentes approches présentées dans ce mémoire et permettent d'apprécier les performances des lois de commande proposées. / Agriculture has today the challenge to increase its productivity in order to supply enough food for the growing needs of the world population. However, this activity strongly damages environmental ressources as water and soil, and new solutions are today required to reduce the impact of agricultural practices on environment. Automatic guidance systems for farm vehicles are some new technologies that contribute to this objective, allowing accurate path following in the fields and therefore improving efficiency and quality of the agricultural work carried out. Essential functionalities are however absent in these systems, as the capacities to compensate for the crabway motion of the vehicle on sliding sloping fields, to control the trajectories of the towed implement,and to perform U-turn maneuvers in headland. This thesis studies these problems through the control in presence of sliding of a poly-articulated wheeled mobile robot called RMPA, composed of a four-wheel-steering vehicle and n passive trailers hooked up at some distance from the rear axle of the previous one. An extended kinematic model of the RMPA is first used in order to take into account for the sliding effects on the overall behaviour of the robot. The sliding parameters, introduced on each rolling and steering axle of the RMPA, are estimated using a state observer built as a control law. The reference path [gamma] to be followed is either previously learned or specially planned using elementary primitives connected together with pieces of clothoid to produce the U-turn maneuvers. In a first step, both front and rear steering actuations of the robot are used to accurately control both lateral and angular deviations of the RMPA's four-wheel-steering vehicle with respect to [gamma] : the control of the front steering wheels is based on the transformation of the extended kinematic model into a chained system, allowing to dissociate the lateral and longitudinal commands, and on exact linearization techniques in order to servo lateral deviation. The control of the rear steering wheels is built from the angular deviation dynamic and ensures the convergence of the vehicle deviation to the desired set point. In a second step, these control laws are extended to control the lateral deviation of the ith trailer of the RMPA with respect to [gamma] : a backstepping approach is proposed to calculate the control law for the RMPA's front steering wheels from the study of a virtual control law for the ith trailer. Finally, the longitudinal control law of the RMPA is based on model predictive control, in order to accurately follow the velocity references linked to [gamma]. Numerous experiments relying on an actual RMPA, composed of a passive trailer hooked up at some distance from the rear axle of a four-wheel-steering vehicle, permit to validate the various approaches presented in this thesis and to appreciate the capabilities of the proposed control laws.

Submitted by Verena Pereira (verenagoncalves@uefs.br) on 2017-02-17T22:06:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Final (Corre??es) - Eduardo Mendes.pdf: 20884254 bytes, checksum: 2f9c97501da8a0259ee7afa7dee7506d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-17T22:06:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Final (Corre??es) - Eduardo Mendes.pdf: 20884254 bytes, checksum: 2f9c97501da8a0259ee7afa7dee7506d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-25 / In this research we studied evasive maneuvers to avoid collisions in an environment with debris, enabling missions to the space. When a collision occurs, usually the space vehicle is completely damaged and destroyed, thus ensuring that the satellite avoids this collision will preserve the objective of the mission. In this study, we will see how a space vehicle can perform an evasive maneuver through thedriveline under the effect of the atmospheric drag force, whose efficiency will be established through the settings of technological parameters, which are the amount of fuel in the space vehicle and the ability to eject the propellant through the propulsion system. The purpose of the evasive maneuver is to avoid the collision but to keep the vehicle in its nominal orbit. At first we found several initial conditions of collision with the space vehicle under the influence of Earth's gravitational force, to ensure that there would be a collision between objects, from that on, the propulsion force was applied, after that, considering only the effect of atmospheric drag on the objects and right after the two collisional objects were brought under the effect of both forces, the force of the atmospheric drag and the propulsion together. In search of the most economical maneuver, from the point of view of fuel consumption, maneuvers were performed with lower propulsion drive time, and at different times of the trajectory of the vehicle and also at random times with the use of the propulsion force . The maneuvers were found through numerical simulations for each mathematical model of disturbances added to the orbital dynamics under the influence of the gravitational force. / Neste trabalho, fizemos o estudo de manobras evasivas para evitar colis?es em ambiente de detritos, viabilizando as miss?es espaciais. Quando ocorre uma colis?o, normalmente o ve?culo espacial fica totalmente danificado e destru?do, portanto, garantir ao sat?lite o desvio da colis?o, preservar? o objetivo da miss?o. Neste estudo, veremos como um ve?culo espacial pode executar uma manobra evasiva, atrav?s do sistema propulsor, sob o efeito da for?a de arrasto atmosf?rico, cuja efici?ncia ser? estabelecida atrav?s das configura??es dos par?metros tecnol?gicos, sendo estes, a quantidade de combust?vel do ve?culo espacial e a capacidade de ejetar propelente pelo sistema propulsor. O objetivo da manobra evasiva ? evitar a colis?o, mas, mantendo o ve?culo em sua ?rbita nominal. A princ?pio foi encontrado um conjunto de condi??es iniciais de colis?o com o ve?culo espacial sob o efeito da for?a gravitacional da Terra, para garantir que haveria a colis?o entre os objetos e, a partir disto, foi aplicada a for?a de propuls?o, depois considerando somente o efeito do arrasto atmosf?rico sobre os objetos e logo ap?s, o ve?culo espacial e o detrito foram postos sob o efeito de ambas da for?a de propuls?o e do arrasto atmosf?rico, juntas. Em busca da manobra mais econ?mica, do ponto de vista do consumo de combust?vel, foram executadas manobras com tempo de acionamento de propuls?o menor, e em diferentes momentos da trajet?ria do ve?culo e tamb?m por tempos aleat?rios de acionamento de for?a de propuls?o. As manobras foram determinadas atrav?s de simula??es num?ricas para cada modelo matem?tico das perturba??es adicionadas ? din?mica orbital sob o efeito da for?a gravitacional.

Submitted by Verena Pereira (verenagoncalves@uefs.br) on 2018-11-14T22:49:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Jadiane(C).pdf: 1600835 bytes, checksum: 6b3162236247731029b8ced5d94cc873 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-14T22:49:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Jadiane(C).pdf: 1600835 bytes, checksum: 6b3162236247731029b8ced5d94cc873 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-07 / Earth's operational orbiting satellites are very useful for space science because it has great features as these services enable research and space explorations for scientific, commercial, and military interests as well. However, the increasing flow of space activities has increased the amount of debris orbiting in the operating regions, thereby increasing the chances of collisions in those areas, and allowing immeasurable damages if the satellite remains in this collision orbit. In view of the large number of operational objects, the study of evasive maneuvers for space vehicles has been growing, and this one is important in face of the possibility of collisions, not only with a single debris but with clouds of space debris. The objective of the evasive maneuver is to avoid collision, but by keeping the vehicle in its orbit nominally. The history of the phenomenon, that is, how it evolves over time, is found when the differential equation that represents the phenomenon is solved. From the point of view of Physics and Mathematics, the more realistic the model, the more difficult is the solution of the differential equations representing the phenomenon. Thus, this work seeks to present the analytical and semi-analytical solutions for the equations describing the relative dynamics between two bodies subjected to gravitational force, Chohessy-Wiltshire equations, under the influence of forces: gravitational, atmospheric drag, chemical propulsion ( exponential model and linear model), atmospheric drag plus chemical propulsion and plasma propulsion, and finally present their respective computational simulations. These simulations made it possible to show what happens to the operational satellites against a collision, for each specified model. With the contribution of the development of the atmospheric drag equation, with the drag coefficient varying / Os sat?lites operacionais em ?rbita da Terra s?o muito ?teis para a Ci?ncia Espacial, pois possuem grandes aplica??es e fun??es. Seus servi?os possibilitam pesquisas e explora??es espaciais para interesses cient?ficos, comerciais e tamb?m militares. Por?m, o crescente fluxo das atividades espaciais tem elevado a quantidade de detritos orbitando nas regi?es operacionais e, desse modo, aumentando as chances de colis?es nessas ?reas, e possibilitando imensur?veis preju?zos, caso o sat?lite permane?a nessa ?rbita de colis?o. Diante da grande quantidade de objetos operacionais e n?o operacionais, o estudo de manobras evasivas para os ve?culos espaciais torna-se urgente e necess?rio, visto a possibilidade de colis?es, n?o s? com um ?nico detrito, mas com nuvens de detritos espaciais. O objetivo da manobra evasiva ? evitar a colis?o, mas, mantendo o ve?culo em sua ?rbita nominal. A hist?ria do fen?meno, ou seja, como ele evolui no tempo, ? encontrada quando a equa??o diferencial que o representa ? resolvida. Assim obtemos a posi??o relativa entre os objetos colisionais no tempo. Do ponto de vista da F?sica e da Matem?tica, quanto mais realista for o modelo, mais dif?cil ser? a solu??o das equa??es diferenciais representantes do fen?meno. Assim, este trabalho busca apresentar as solu??es anal?ticas e semi-anal?tica para as equa??es que descrevem a din?mica relativa entre dois corpos sob a atua??o das for?as: gravitacional, de arrasto atmosf?rico, propuls?o qu?mica (modelo exponencial e modelo linear) e propuls?o plasma. Por fim, busca apresentar suas respectivas simula??es computacionais. Estas simula??es possibilitaram mostrar o que acontece com os sat?lites operacionais frente ? uma colis?o, para cada um modelo especificado. Outra contribui??o deste trabalho ? solu??o semi-anal?tica da din?mica relativa com arrasto atmosf?rico para densidade atmosf?rica n?o constante