This article proposes a method to determine energy-optimal low-thrust trajectories for satellite formation manoeuvre in the presence of the J2 effect. This manoeuvre is cast as a non-linear optimization problem with a desired final satellite formation configuration subjecting to collision avoidance constraint. With this proposed approach, the deputy satellite is manoeuvred into a quasi-periodic desired final formation with respect to the chief satellite in the presence of the J2 effect. Resulting non-linear optimal control problem is converted into non-linear programming (NLP) problem by a direct transcription method called Legendre pseudospectral method. The NLP problem is then solved using a sparse non-linear optimization algorithm. Simulation results validate the proposed optimal trajectory design for formation manoeuvres in the presence of the J2 effect.


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    Title :

    Energy-optimal low-thrust satellite formation manoeuvre in presence of J2 perturbation


    Contributors:
    Wu, B-L (author) / Wang, D-W (author) / Poh, E K (author)


    Publication date :

    2011-09-01


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown





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