2025/02/07 by Yuri Shimane, Stefano Di Cairano, Shimane, Yuri +5 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Dynamics and Control #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.05013
openalex publication_date 2025/02/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
We develop a model predictive control (MPC) policy for station keeping on a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). The proposed policy achieves full-state tracking of a reference NRHO via a multiple-maneuver control horizon, each spaced one revolution apart to abide by typical mission operation requirements. We prove that the proposed policy is recursively feasible, and perform numerical evaluation in an output-feedback setting by incorporating a navigation filter and realistic operational uncertainties, where the proposed MPC is compared against the state-of-the-art station-keeping algorithm adopted for the Gateway. Our approach successfully maintains the spacecraft in the vicinity of the reference NRHO at a similar cumulative cost as existing station-keeping methods without encountering phase deviation issues, a common drawback of existing methods with one maneuver per revolution.