Adaptive Pose Tracking Control for On-Orbit Tumbling Target Spacecraft

It is assumed in this paper that the service spacecraft perform autonomous rendezvous and proximity operation to a tumbling target in space. Under this background, this paper proposes a relative coupled position and attitude dynamics. Using a Lyapunov framework, an adaptive controller is designed with the mass property of the service spacecraft uncertain. Numerical simulation is finally provided to illustrate the performance of the proposed controller.