Rapid Path Planning for Zero-Propellant Maneuvers
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Abstract
The zero-propellant maneuver (ZPM) is an advanced space station large-angle attitude maneuver technique using control momentum gyroscopes (CMGs), and rapid path planning (RPP) enhances its performance. This paper proposes a novel trajectory optimization technique—the RPP method—to generate the ZPM path. The core of the RPP method is the reconstruction of a continuous-time feasible solution upon the rapid computation of the nonlinear programming (NLP) problem. The method maintains the sparsity of the transcribed NLP and achieves the continuous-time feasibility of the solution with a small number of discretization points. Thus, rapid acquisition of a suboptimal solution may be achieved. The performance of the RPP method is demonstrated by showing that continuous-time feasible ZPM paths with high performance index may be obtained rapidly.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11272346) and the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (2013CB733100).
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Volume 29 • Issue 3 • May 2016
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Received: Oct 26, 2014
Accepted: Jul 1, 2015
Published online: Dec 15, 2015
Published in print: May 1, 2016
Discussion open until: May 15, 2016
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