Obstacle-Avoidance Safety-Guaranteed Rendezvous Control with a Velocity Safety Corridor and Prescribed Performance
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 37, Issue 5
Abstract
A novel safety-guaranteed rendezvous control (SGRC) method is proposed for obstacles avoidance during the rendezvous with a noncooperative target in this paper. An artificial potential field with the addition of a velocity safety corridor is used to describe the motion of space and achieve the constraint on the global velocity of the service spacecraft during the rendezvous. Furthermore, the velocity error term of the system is constrained by combining the prescribed performance control (PPC) method, thereby improving the steady- and transient-state performance of the system while reducing fuel consumption. On this basis, a newly constructed virtual auxiliary state containing both artificial potential fields and self-bounded system state error is developed, and a safety-guaranteed control method capable of achieving rendezvous with the noncooperative target for obstacle avoidance is designed. Two sets of numerical simulation results verify the effectiveness as well as the adaptability of the proposed control method.
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Data Availability Statement
All data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62103446, 62373379), Outstanding Youth Fund of Hunan Provincial Natural Science (Grant No. 2022JJ20081), and Central South University Innovation-Driven Research Program (Grant No. 2023CXQD066).
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Received: Nov 6, 2023
Accepted: Mar 14, 2024
Published online: Jun 4, 2024
Published in print: Sep 1, 2024
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