Research Summaries

Back Autonomous Guidance and Control of a Spacecraft Approaching a Tumbling Object for Docking or Other Proximity Operations

Fiscal Year 2009
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Romano, Marcello
Sponsor Air Force Research Laboratory (Air Force)
Summary The objective of this research is to support the modeling and simulation efforts of spacecraft dynamics and control within RVES and RVSV. The research focuses on the autonomous guidance and control of a spacecraft that is approaching a tumbling Resident Space Object (RSO) for close inspection or docking. The research is broken into the following high level tasks.
1.) Problem Formulation and solving for the optimal solution.
2.) Synthesis of sub-optimal controls capable or real-time implementation.
3.) Construction of models and simulations to compare developed controllers.
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