2024/07/15 by Taehyeun Kim, Kim, Taehyeun, Ilya Kolmanovsky +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · #Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Dynamics and Control #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.11170
openalex publication_date 2024/07/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper considers constrained spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD) in the setting of the Bicircular Restricted Four-Body Problem (BCR4BP), while accounting for attitude dynamics. We consider Line of Sight (LoS) cone constraints, thrust limits, thrust direction limits, and approach velocity constraints during RVD missions in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) in the Sun-Earth-Moon system. To enforce the constraints, the Time Shift Governor (TSG), which uses a time-shifted Chief spacecraft trajectory as a target reference for the Deputy spacecraft, is employed. The time shift is gradually reduced to zero so that the virtual target gradually evolves towards the Chief spacecraft as time goes by, and the RVD mission objective can be achieved. Numerical simulation results are reported to validate the proposed control method.