In this paper, a numerical method is presented to obtain approximate solutions for the system of nonlinear delay integrodifferential equations derived from considering biological species living together. This method is essentially based on the truncated Taylor series and its matrix representations with collocation points. Also, to illustrate the pertinent features of the method examples are pre...

Abstract. This paper pr esents an energ y-optimal trajectory planning method fo r spacecraft fo rmation reconfiguration in deep space environment using continuous lo w-thrust propulsion system. First, we emplo y the Legendre pseudospectral method (LPM) to transform the optimal reconfiguration problem to a parameter optimization nonlinear programming (NLP) problem. Then, to avoid the computation...

A new set of modified Legendre rational functions which are mutually orthogonal in L2(0,+∞) is introduced. Various projection and interpolation results using the modified Legendre rational functions are established. These results form the mathematical foundation of related spectral and pseudospectral methods for solving partial differential equations on the half line. A spectral scheme using th...

In the present paper, we develop a modified pseudospectral scheme for solving an optimal control problem which is governed by a switched dynamical system. Many real-world processes such as chemical processes, automotive systems and manufacturing processes can be modeled as such systems. For this purpose, we replace the problem with an alternative optimal control problem in which the switching t...

Different discretization and trust-region methods are compared for the low-thrust fuel-optimal trajectory optimization problem using successive convex programming. In particular, differential integral formulations of adaptive pseudospectral Legendre–Gauss–Radau method, an arbitrary-order Legendre–Gauss–Lobatto technique based on Hermite interpolation, a first-order-hold considered. The number p...

We derive in this paper the asymptotic estimates of the nodes and weights of the Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre-Birkhoff (GLLB) quadrature formula, and obtain optimal error estimates for the associated GLLB interpolation in Jacobi weighted Sobolev spaces. We also present a useroriented implementation of the pseudospectral methods based on the GLLB quadrature nodes for Neumann problems. This approach al...