A controller controls a spacecraft to rendezvous a non-center-of-mass point of the controlled spacecraft with a non-center-of-mass point of an uncontrolled celestial body. The controlled spacecraft and the uncontrolled celestial body form a multi-object celestial system, and the controller produces control commands to thrusters of the controlled spacecraft using a non-linear model predictive control (NMPC) optimizing a cost function over a receding horizon that minimizes an error between coordinates of the non-center-of-mass point of the spacecraft and the non-center-of-mass point of the celestial body subject to joint dynamics of the multi-object celestial system coupled with joint kinematics of the multi-object celestial system.
Nonlinear model predictive control of coupled celestial system
2022-04-05
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
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