Vision Assisted Satellite Formation Control

Author

Veres, S.M. ; Lincoln, N.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. Sci., Southampton Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

5712

Lastpage

5717

Abstract

This paper examines a complete solution to autonomous formation flying of satellites where problems of position, velocity and attitude estimation, data fusion across the cluster, constrained actuators, fuel efficient manoeuvres, actuator misalignment and robustness are all considered. The joint problem of inaccurate state estimation combined with low thrust is addressed through the use of a Kalman filter and an LP-solvable constrained predictive controller. Attitude control is ensured by a globally stable quaternion based adaptive feedback controller with calibrated control signals for translation and attitude manoeuvres

Keywords

Kalman filters; adaptive control; artificial satellites; attitude control; position control; predictive control; sensor fusion; velocity control; Kalman filter; actuator misalignment; actuator robustness; adaptive feedback controller; attitude estimation; autonomous control; autonomous formation flying; constrained actuator; data fusion; event driven control; fuel efficient manoeuvre; globally stable quaternion; parasitic torque; position estimation; predictive controller; satellite control; velocity estimation; vision assisted satellite formation control; Actuators; Adaptive control; Attitude control; Calibration; Fuels; Position measurement; Quaternions; Robust control; Satellites; State estimation; actuator calibration; autonomous control; event driven control; formation flying; parasitic torque; satellite control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2006 45th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0171-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2006.377489

Filename

4177801