Title :
Optimal spacecraft rendezvous with PNG
Author :
Hiroyuki Takano;Mini Matsuda;Takeshi Yamasaki;Isao Yamaguchi
Author_Institution :
Department of Aerospace Engineering, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
Recently, along with International Space Station, many rendezvous are carried out around the earth. Some of them are unmanned space freights and require automatic rendezvous procedure. In this paper, spacecraft rendezvous with input time-lag system are formulated as nonlinear programming problems based on the proportional navigation guidance (PNG) and numerically analyzed. The optimal solutions were obtained for several objectives. The problem of choice of the navigation constant that provides minimizing rendezvous time and control effort is analyzed. The results of computer simulation are given.
Keywords :
"Navigation","Mathematical model"
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2015 15th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAS.2015.7364905