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Concurrent rendezvous control of underactuated spacecraft
, M. Reza Emami
Published in Elsevier Ltd
2017
Volume: 138
   
Pages: 28 - 42
Abstract
The concurrent control of spacecraft equipped with one-axis unilateral thruster and three-axis attitude actuator is considered in this paper. The proposed control law utilizes attitude control channels along with the single thrust force concurrently, for three-dimensional trajectory tracking and rendezvous with a target object. The concurrent controller also achieves orbital transfer to low Earth orbits with long range separation. To demonstrate the orbit transfer capabilities of the concurrent controller, a smooth elliptical orbit transfer trajectory for co-planar circular orbits is designed. The velocity change and energy consumption of the designed orbit transfer trajectory is observed to be equivalent to that of Hohmann transfer. © 2017 IAA
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JournalData powered by TypesetActa Astronautica
PublisherData powered by TypesetElsevier Ltd
ISSN00945765