Reachability analysis is very useful and of great interest in various space missions. This correspondence proposes a method to compute the 2-D reachable set (RS) of low-thrust spacecraft with bounded control and limited fuel. For a class of smooth nonlinear affine-control systems, a two-step solving procedure is proposed to solve the boundary of 2-D RSs. By constructing a suitable homotopy, the connection between the homotopy path and the boundary of 2-D RSs is built. The proposed method is applied to investigate the 2-D orbital element RS of low-thrust spacecraft. In particular, both osculating and mean orbital elements are considered. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method are demonstrated by numerical simulations and analyses.


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    Title :

    Two-Dimensional Reachability of Low-Thrust Spacecraft


    Contributors:
    Xiao, Qian (author) / Li, Lincheng (author) / Zhang, Jingrui (author) / Xu, Ming (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-06-01


    Size :

    2541958 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English