comparison between two methods to calculate the transition matrix of orbit motion对比两种方法来计算轨道运动的转移矩阵.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 768973, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/768973 Research Article Comparison between Two Methods to Calculate the Transition Matrix of Orbit Motion 1 ´ 2 Ana Paula Marins Chiaradia, Helio Koiti Kuga, and Antonio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado2 1 Grupo de Dinamica Orbital e Planetologia, Departament of Mathematics, FEG/UNESP, CEP 12516-410, ˆ Guaratingueta, SP, Brazil ´ 2 DEM-INPE, Avenida dos Astronautas, 1758, CEP 12227-010, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil ˜ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Ana Paula Marins Chiaradia, anachiaradia@feg.unesp.br Received 10 June 2011; Accepted 6 September 2011 Academic Editor: Maria Zanardi Copyright q 2012 Ana Paula Marins Chiaradia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Two methods to evaluate the state transition matrix are implemented and analyzed to verify the computational cost and the accuracy of both methods. This evaluation represents one of the highest computational costs on the artificial satellite orbit determination task. The first method is an approximation of the Keplerian motion, providing an analytical solution which is then calculated numerically by solving Kepler’s equation. The second one is a local numerical approximation that includes the effect of J2 . The analysis is performed c