In nature, many biological species have devised simple yet effective motion strategies that help them with a variety of tasks, such as foraging and mating. One such phenomenon has been observed in hoverflies, in which a male hoverfly moves in a certain path and appears stationary from the viewpoint of a moving female hoverfly. The use of this new bio-inspired strategy has recently been considered for rendezvous tasks in space situation-awareness missions. In this paper, the feasibilities of applying such a rendezvous strategy to free-flying (i.e., zero applied control acceleration) space vehicles and the respondent detections of such motion strategies to prevent orbital collisions are investigated in the local vertical and local horizontal frame. Algorithms for nontrivial free-flying scenarios are derived for both fixed and free-flying spacecraft. The extended Kalman filter is designed to demonstrate the ability to detect and monitor these types of rendezvous motions.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Bio-Inspired Rendezvous Strategies and Respondent Detections


    Contributors:
    Basset, Gareth (author) / Xu, Yunjun (author) / Pham, Khanh (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-12-04


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    From Respondent Burden to Respondent Delight

    de Dios Ortuzar, J. / Lee-Gosselin, M. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003


    Respondent Burden

    Ampt, E. S. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003


    Rendezvous

    Online Contents | 2008


    Rendezvous

    Online Contents | 2006


    Rendezvous

    Online Contents | 2004