TR2022-142
Abort-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptic Orbits
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- "Abort-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptic Orbits", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2022.3216077, November 2022.BibTeX TR2022-142 PDF
- @article{AguilarMarsillach2022nov,
- author = {Aguilar Marsillach, Daniel and Di Cairano, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
- title = {Abort-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptic Orbits},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2022,
- month = nov,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2022.3216077},
- issn = {1063-6536},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-142}
- }
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- "Abort-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptic Orbits", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2022.3216077, November 2022.
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Abstract:
We develop a spacecraft rendezvous policy that ensures safe, collision-free trajectories under various thrust failure scenarios. We use backward reachable sets to characterize the unsafe region where, if a failure occurs, a collision between a chaser and a target spacecraft cannot be avoided with the remaining available thrust. The chaser spacecraft is guided towards the target via model predictive control that ensures abort-safety by avoiding the unsafe region, which is locally convexified with half-spaces. Simulations of the rendezvous policy on various orbits demonstrate that the approach ensures safe aborts in the event of multiple thruster failures, passive abort safety under total thruster failure, and achieves some robustness to unmodeled orbital perturbations.
Related News & Events
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NEWS Avishai Weiss to give an invited talk at the University of Kentucky Date: November 11, 2022
MERL Contact: Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, OptimizationBrief- Avishai Weiss will give an invited talk at the William Maxwell Reed Seminar Series, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Kentucky on "Fail-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous." The talk will present some recent developments at MERL on guaranteeing safe rendezvous trajectories that avoid colliding with the target in the event of thruster anomalies.