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Simone Fiori, Francesco Rachiglia, Luca Sabatini and Edoardo Sampaolesi
The aim of this research paper is to propose a framework to model, simulate and control the motion of a small spacecraft in the proximity of a space station. In particular, rendezvous in the presence of physical obstacles is tackled by a virtual potentia...
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David Zuehlke, Madhur Tiwari, Khalid Jebari and Krishna Bhavithavya Kidambi
As interest in Moon exploration grows, and efforts to establish an orbiting outpost intensify, accurate modeling of spacecraft dynamics in cislunar space is becoming increasingly important. Contrary to satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where it takes ...
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Giordana Bucchioni and Mario Innocenti
The paper describes the preliminary design of a phasing trajectory in a cislunar environment, where the third body perturbation is considered non-negligible. The working framework is the one proposed by the ESA?s Heracles mission in which a passive targe...
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Giordana Bucchioni and Mario Innocenti
The paper presents the development of a fully-safe, automatic rendezvous strategy between a passive vehicle and an active one orbiting around the Earth?Moon L2 Lagrangian point. This is one of the critical phases of future missions to permanently return ...
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Sergio Cuevas del Valle, Hodei Urrutxua, Pablo Solano-López, Roger Gutierrez-Ramon and Ahmed Kiyoshi Sugihara
Deep space missions are recently gaining increasing interest from space agencies and industry, their maximum exponent being the establishment of a permanent station in cis-lunar orbit within this decade. To that end, autonomous rendezvous and docking in ...
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Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar and Ryan T. White
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit has generated interest in on-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions require precise rendezvous and proximity operations in the vicinity of non-coo...
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Kecen Li, Haopeng Zhang and Chenyu Hu
Estimation of spacecraft pose is essential for many space missions, such as formation flying, rendezvous, docking, repair, and space debris removal. We propose a learning-based method with uncertainty prediction to estimate the pose of a spacecraft from ...
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Mahdi Akhloumadi and Danil Ivanov
Relative motion control problem for capturing the tumbling space debris object is considered. Onboard thrusters and reaction wheels are used as actuators. The nonlinear coupled relative translational and rotational equations of motion are derived. The SD...
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Kiruki Cosmas and Asami Kenichi
In the recent past, research on the utilization of deep learning algorithms for space applications has been widespread. One of the areas where such algorithms are gaining attention is in spacecraft pose estimation, which is a fundamental requirement in m...
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Soobin Jeon, Sang-Young Park and Geuk-Nam Kim
CANYVAL-C is a formation-flying mission that demonstrates a coronagraph utilizing two CubeSats. The coronagraph is a space telescope that blocks sunlight to examine the overcast regions around the sun. It is composed of optical and occult segments. Two s...
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Pureum Kim and Sang-Young Park
This study investigates the preliminary trajectory design for high-thrust missions to near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), considering distance and phase angle constraints during the approaching phase to enable pre-rendezvous optical navigation and the scientifi...
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Zhiwei Zhang, Dangjun Zhao, Xianbin Li, Chunyang Kong and Ming Su
Rapid and accurate rendezvous and proximity operations for spacecraft are crucial to the success of most space missions. In this paper, a sequential convex programming method, combined with the first-order and second-order Birkhoff pseudospectral methods...
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Kai Jin, Zeyang Yin, Yaolin Lei, Yuanlong Zhang and Xiaolong Zhang
This paper presents a robust trajectory design method for approaching and rendezvous with a space target considering multi-source uncertainties. A nonlinear covariance analysis method based on the state transition tensor is presented to formulate the pro...
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Yong Zhang, Yi Han, Ruonan Yu, Zhen Yang, Zhengjia Wang and Jianlong Zhang
The pose measurement and motion estimation of long-distance space CubeSats is a difficult problem for autonomous rendezvous and track maintenance. In this work, an approach is proposed for the pose estimation of CubeSat based on the micro-Doppler effect ...
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Cosmin Copot, Cristina I. Muresan, Manuel Beschi and Clara M. Ionescu
In this work, we present a synchronous co-simulation of a 6DOF (six degree of freedom) ball and plate platform and its 3D computer model. The co-simulation in the virtual environment is intended to mimic the rendezvous between a cargo vehicle such as the...
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Bin Yang, Pengxuan Liu, Jinglang Feng and Shuang Li
This paper presents a novel and robust two-stage pursuit strategy for the incomplete-information impulsive space pursuit-evasion missions considering the J2 perturbation. The strategy firstly models the impulsive pursuit-evasion game problem into a far-d...
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Laihao Jiang, Hongwei Mo and Peng Tian
Many bio-inspired coordination strategies have been investigated for swarm robots. Bacterial chemotaxis exhibits a certain degree of intelligence, and has been developed some optimization algorithm for robot(s), e.g., bacterial foraging optimization algo...
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Simone Battistini, Giulio De Angelis, Mauro Pontani and Filippo Graziani
Modern space missions often require satellites to perform guidance, navigation, and control tasks autonomously. Despite their limited resources, small satellites are also involved in this trend, as in-orbit rendezvous and docking maneuvers and formation ...
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Florian Rems, Heike Frei, Eicke-Alexander Risse and Matthias Burri
Completed in 2009, the European Proximity Operations Simulator 2.0 (EPOS 2.0) succeeded EPOS 1.0 at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC). One of the many contributions the old EPOS 1.0 facility made to spaceflight rendezvous is the verification of t...
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