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Prior Policy Guided Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning of Spacecraft-Manipulator System

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Abstract

The strong dynamic coupling between the manipulator and the base poses a significant challenge to maintaining spacecraft attitude stability, potentially compromising mission safety. In this paper, we propose a Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning (DACMP) framework that simultaneously achieves high-precision end-effector pose reaching for a 6-DoF space manipulator and attitude stabilization of the base spacecraft. To enhance learning efficiency, we present a prior policy-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm incorporating the Timestep-level Expert Switching Guidance (TESG) mechanism, thereby promoting global convergence and improving task success rates. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DACMP significantly outperforms baseline DRL algorithms in terms of task success rate and control precision. Furthermore, the robustness of DACMP is validated under various challenging scenarios, including system constraints, environmental disturbances, and perception uncertainties. The code and simulation configurations are available on GitHub: https://github.com/HIT-YuhuiHu/DACMP.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.25362,
  title  = {Prior Policy Guided Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning of Spacecraft-Manipulator System},
  author = {Yuhui Hu and Dong Zhou and Kaihong Ouyang and Zhongliang Yu and Jianfeng Lv and Xiangyu Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25362},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

36 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables. Under review