CEAS EuroGNC 2019
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Application of Mean-Motion-Based Artificial Potentials for a Cluster Flight Mission Scenario
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| Federico Fumenti |
DLR, Institute of Space Systems, Bremen, Germany | | David Seelbinder |
DLR, Institute of Space Systems, Bremen, Germany | | Stephan Theil |
DLR, Institute of Space Systems, Bremen, Germany |
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| Abstract:
Cluster flight is one of the key technologies that are required to enable the deployment of distributed space systems. Through the concept of cluster flight, a large monolithic structure can be replaced with multiple smaller spacecraft, permitting to overcome physical limitations and improve mission performance. To ensure a safe relative motion between several objects that fly in proximity, the guidance and control algorithm must be designed in order to be scalable, autonomous, and responsive. A technique to meet these requirements by employing the method of the artificial potentials is presented in this paper. For a cluster of spacecraft that are distributed in the along-track direction in a leader-follower manner, the relative distances can be altered by focusing and adjusting the mean motion of the spacecraft. An artificial-potential-based approach can be used to evaluate corrections of the semi-major axes by only reacting on the current configuration, with no need to perform trajectory predictions.
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| Keywords: Adaptive control; Multi-vehicle cooperative decision and control; Spacecraft orbit guidance |
 View PDF CEAS-GNC-2019-010 |
| Federico Fumenti, David Seelbinder, Stephan Theil: Application of Mean-Motion-Based Artificial Potentials for a Cluster Flight Mission Scenario. Proceedings of the 2019 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Milan, Italy. April 2019. CEAS-GNC-2019-010.
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| BibTeX entry:
@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2019-010,
authors = {Fumenti, Federico and Seelbinder, David and Theil, Stephan},
title = {Application of Mean-Motion-Based Artificial Potentials for a Cluster Flight Mission Scenario},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
address = {Milan, Italy},
month = apr,
year = {2019},
note = {CEAS-GNC-2019-010}
}
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