Satellites clusters for Earth observation purposes entail precise orbit monitoring and control to satisfy application needs efficiently. Fast technological progress in GNSS receivers, intersatellite communications/vision links, and propulsion technologies have inspired and fostered autonomous orbit determination and control techniques, allowing more efficient ground segment operations. Moreover, new distributed satellite missions have been enabled by autonomous formation flying, with unprecedented Earth observation potential. These missions may adopt varying observational modes associated with different relative orbital configurations and also transit among these modes as required by mission control. In this article, we consider a hypothetic distributed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission with a main SAR illuminator, as CONAE's SAOCOM 1 satellites, and one or more companions able to adopt different bistatic SAR geometries, enabling interferometry, tomography, or specular acquisition. To approach this problem, we formulate a basic task for any actively controlled companion satellite (deputy satellite) consisting of following a reference maneuver relative to the chief satellite orbit. This task is performed by means of a feedback control law based on newly introduced relative orbital elements (ROEs) and suitable to continuous actuators (e.g., electric propulsion) with bounded thrust. As a main result, we prove the asymptotic stability of the maneuver orbit tracking task for low Earth, nonequatorial, and near-circular chief orbits. This required a reformulation of the relative orbit tracking problem and the associated ROEs. A control allocation along the orbit is also proposed to reduce the propellant consumption and the transient time between SAR modes. The theoretical results are validated with simulated controlled transitions between different acquisition modes.


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    Titel :

    On Autonomous Reconfiguration of SAR Satellite Formation Flight With Continuous Control


    Beteiligte:
    Servidia, Pablo (Autor:in) / Espana, Martin (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.12.2021


    Format / Umfang :

    2918464 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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