This paper presents a methods for safe spacecraft autonomous maneuvering that leverages robotic motion-planning techniques to spacecraft control. Specifically the scenario we consider is an in-plan rendezvous of a chaser spacecraft in proximity to a target spacecraft at the origin of the Clohessy Wiltshire Hill frame. The trajectory for the chaser spacecraft is generated in a receding horizon fashion by executing a sampling based robotic motion planning algorithm name Fast Marching Trees (FMT) which efficiently grows a tree of trajectories over a set of probabillistically drawn samples in the state space. To enforce safety the tree is only grown over actively safe samples for which there exists a one-burn collision avoidance maneuver that circularizes the spacecraft orbit along a collision-free coasting arc and that can be executed under potential thrusters failures. The overall approach establishes a provably correct framework for the systematic encoding of safety specifications into the spacecraft trajectory generations process and appears amenable to real time implementation on orbit. Simulation results are presented for a two-fault tolerant spacecraft during autonomous approach to a single client in Low Earth Orbit.
Sampling Based Approach to Spacecraft Autonomous Maneuvering with Safety Specifications
2015
67 pages
Report
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English
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Astronautics , Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , Sampling , Spacecraft orbits , Spacecraft trajectories , Trajectory control , Autonomy , Collision avoidance , Maneuvers , Dynamic control , Simulation , Safety , Automatic control , Evasive actions , Fault tolerance , Failure , Algorithms , Thrustors
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