The past two decades have seen a substantial increase in formation flying missions. These missions often have strict relative navigation performance requirements in order to achieve mission and flight safety objectives. Many formation flying missions utilize GPS for navigation, however, a number of issues can cause loss of GPS signals including Space Vehicle (SV) anomalies and adversarial interference. Additionally, deep-space missions often have limited or no access to GPS. Nearly all formation SVs implement some form of communication transceiver for communication within the formation. These transceivers can be utilized to produce range measurements, yielding these measurements as a viable option for relative navigation. While the accuracy of range-based navigation is dependent on the ranging system, it is also highly dependent on formation geometry. This research presents a methodology to determine the formation design parameters which optimize relative navigation performance using only range measurements.
FORMATION DESIGN FOR OPTIMAL RELATIVE NAVIGATION IN GPS DENIED ENVIRONMENTS
Proceedings of the 44th Annual American Astronautical Society Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2022 ; Chapter : 1 ; 3-17
2024-01-01
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Formation Design for Optimal Relative Navigation in GPS Denied Environments
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