Optimal Steering Law for Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft

Autor: P S Lal Priya, Renju Gangadharan, M. Jeslin Jacob
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Zdroj: 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium in Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (ROMA).
DOI: 10.1109/roma46407.2018.8986720
Popis: Rendezvous and Docking (RVD) of spacecraft include five phases namely launch phase, phasing, far range rendezvous, close range rendezvous and docking/berthing. The close range rendezvous operations are mostly governed by the relative motion equations. This paper proposes an optimal steering law for spacecraft’s RVD operation making use of collocation technique employing pseudo-spectral polynomial approximation. Traditional linearized Clohessy-Wiltshire (C-W) equations are used to model the relative motion dynamics. Simulation results proved the efficiency of the proposed method.
Databáze: OpenAIRE