We address the question of design and optimal control of a class of dual-spacecraft interferometric imaging formations. The first main contribution is that we combine two ideas introduced separately in the literature and propose a maneuver that offers improved imaging performance. We then formulate an optimal control problem to minimize fuel consumption and maximize image quality by minimizing the relative speed, which is proportional to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the reconstructed image. We show that the necessary conditions are also sufficient and that the resulting optimal control is unique. Finally, we apply a continuation method to solve for the unique optimal trajectory.


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    Title :

    Optimal motion planning for dual-spacecraft interferometry


    Contributors:
    Hussein (author) / Scheeres, D. (author) / Bloch, A. (author) / Hyland, D. (author) / McCLAMROCH, N.H. (author)


    Publication date :

    2007-04-01


    Size :

    2244851 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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