Model predictive control for spacecraft rendezvous.

Kannan, Somasundar; Sajadi-Alamdari, Seyed Amin; Dentler, Jan; Olivares-Mendez, Miguel A.; Voos, Holger

Abstract

The current paper addresses the problem of Spacecraft Rendezvous using Model Predictive Control (MPC). The Clohessy-Wiltshire-Hill equations are used to model the spacecraft relative motion. Here the rendezvous problem is discussed by trajectory control using MPC method. Two different scenarios are addressed in trajectory control. The first scenario consist of position control with fuel constraint, secondly the position control is performed in the presence of obstacles. Here the problem of fuel consumption and obstacle avoidance is addressed directly in the cost function. The proposed methods are successfully analysed through simulations.

Citation

KANNAN, S., SAJADI-ALAMDARI, S.A., DENTLER, J., OLIVARES-MENDEZ, M.A. and VOOS, H. 2016. Model predictive control for spacecraft rendezvous. In Proceedings of the 4th International conference on control, mechatronics and automation 2016 (ICCMA 2016), 7-11 December 2016, Barcelona, Spain. New York: ACM [online], pages 121-125. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3029610.3029633

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 4th International conference on control, mechatronics and automation 2016 (ICCMA 2016)
• Start Date: Dec 7, 2016
• End Date: Dec 11, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Dec 7, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Dec 7, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2016
• Deposit Date: Dec 6, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 6, 2022
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 121-125
• ISBN: 9781450352130
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3029610.3029633
• Keywords: Spacecraft rendezvous; Collision avoidance; Model predictive control
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1279829