Mathematikgebäude, Raum 614/616

In recent years, spacecraft navigation and control has achieved astonishing feats. As a recent example, the journey of ESA's Rosetta craft through the inner Solar System lasted ten years and covered 6.4 billion km until the lander Philae landed on comet 67P in November 2014. Likewise, the Japanese craft Hayabusa2 will fly 5.4 billion kilometers within six years in order to return samples from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth.
In this talk, we highlight some of the difficulties of planning corresponding flight paths of future missions in an optimal fashion, present some of the underlying mathematical models, and discuss methods from mathematical optimization that help to attain such amazing accomplishments.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Veranstaltung 'Ausgewählte Kapitel des Operations Research' statt.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Fliege

University of Southampton