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Trajectory Optimisation for Starship Landing

Starship Landing Trajectory Optimization

Trajectory Optimisation for Starship Landing

Landing a rocket! — The code

Now onto the fun stuff. There are some amazing libraries out there that churn through equations and do the heavy lifting of optimization, so the real “art” lies in asking the right question to the solver.

Corrisponding code for: https://thomas-godden.medium.com/how-spacex-lands-starship-sort-of-ee96cdde650b

Setup

Conda Environment Setup

To install Anaconda follow the instructions in this webpage

Create a conda environment for the PyBullet tutorial:

$ conda create --name traj_opt  

Switch to the newly create environment (you will notice the name of the environment on the command line in the extreme left):

$ conda activate traj_opt  

Then, clone the repository on your system:

git clone https://github.com/RoML-IISc/StarshipTrajOpt.git

Install the following required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

Running the code

python3 starship.py

Graphs

Videos

Credits:

How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)