Coordinated Motion Control of Distributed Spacecraft with Relative State Estimation
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 29, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper addresses the coordination problem of distributed spacecraft systems with time-invariant communication topologies. In order to estimate the neighbor spacecraft’ relative states which are not able to be measured directly, estimating processes are established on each spacecraft by utilizing an unscented Kalman filtering approach with measuring principles of both the pseudorange and the carrier phase. Based on such estimations, a distributed consensus protocol is proposed to address the coordinated motion problem of distributed spacecraft. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through numerical simulations, with a low-Earth-orbit satellites flying scenario.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the support by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2013AA122601).
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Volume 29 • Issue 3 • May 2016
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Received: Sep 26, 2013
Accepted: Jul 29, 2015
Published online: Oct 19, 2015
Discussion open until: Mar 19, 2016
Published in print: May 1, 2016
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