Elliptical Orbital Spacecraft Rendezvous without Velocity Measurement
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 29, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper presents a new robust output feedback guidance scheme for autonomous spacecraft rendezvous during the final phase in elliptical orbit. The proposed approach is essentially a compound control method, which consists of an input-to-state stable (ISS) concept and high-gain observer (HGO) methodology. More specifically, the HGO is used to estimate the relative velocity between two neighboring spacecrafts, while the ISS-based controller is used to regulate the relative position and the relative velocity to a small region around zero asymptotically. Stability analysis of the closed-loop system is also established by using Lyapunov theory. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61172182), and the fundamental research project of Beijing Institute of Technology (Grant No. 20130142017).
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Volume 29 • Issue 4 • July 2016
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Received: Jun 7, 2015
Accepted: Oct 5, 2015
Published online: Dec 31, 2015
Discussion open until: May 31, 2016
Published in print: Jul 1, 2016
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