Flyaround maneuvers on a satellite orbit by impulsive thrust control

Author

MASUTANI, Yasuhiro ; Matsushita, Motoshi ; Miyazaki, Fumio

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

421

Abstract

Close circumnavigation is an important function indispensable for servicing satellites. We discuss the bielliptic flyaround maneuver by impulsive thrust control for a small and low cost servicing satellite flying around a target satellite. An optimal feedback control scheme for the thrust is proposed to maintain this trajectory in the presence of disturbances. The extended Kalman filter is employed to estimate state variables which are not available for measurement. Simulation results that verify the trajectory keeping capability of the proposed thrust control are presented.

Keywords

Kalman filters; aerospace robotics; artificial satellites; feedback; filtering theory; mobile robots; optimal control; state estimation; bielliptic flyaround maneuver; close circumnavigation; extended Kalman filter; impulsive thrust control; optimal feedback control scheme; satellite orbit; servicing satellites; state variable estimation; trajectory keeping capability; Acceleration; Costs; Earth; Equations; Feedback control; Satellite broadcasting; Space missions; Space shuttles; State estimation; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6576-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932587

Filename

932587