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The paper revisits a Lyapunov-based feedback control to implement spacecraft orbital transfer maneuvers. The spacecraft equations of motion in the form of Gauss Variational Equations (GVEs) are used. By shaping the Lyapunov function using…
In this paper, a control scheme is developed based on an input constrained Model Predictive Controller (MPC) and the idea of modifying the reference command to enforce constraints, usual of Reference Governors (RG). The proposed scheme,…
This paper introduces an explicit reference governor-based control scheme tailored for addressing the velocity-free spacecraft attitude maneuver problem. This problem is subject to specific constraints, namely the pointing constraint,…
Reference governors are add-on schemes that are used to modify trajectories to prevent controlled dynamical systems from violating constraints and so are playing an increasingly important role in aerospace, robotic, and other engineering…
This paper presents an adaptive reference governor (RG) framework for a linear system with matched nonlinear uncertainties that can depend on both time and states, subject to both state and input constraints. The proposed framework…
This paper presents a constraint management strategy based on Scalar Reference Governors (SRG) to enforce output, state, and control constraints while taking into account the preview information of the reference and/or disturbances signals.…
The controller state and reference governor (CSRG) is an add-on scheme for nominal closed-loop systems with dynamic controllers which supervises the controller internal state and the reference input to the closed-loop system to enforce…
This paper develops a Time Shift Governor (TSG)-based control scheme to enforce constraints during rendezvous and docking (RD) missions in the setting of the Two-Body problem. As an add-on scheme to the nominal closed-loop system, the TSG…
In this paper, we consider the problem of constraint management in Linear Periodic (LP) systems using Reference Governors (RG). First, we present the periodic-invariant maximal output admissible sets for LP systems. We extend the earlier…
This paper introduces an explicit reference governor approach for controlling time delay linear systems subject to state and input constraints. The proposed framework relies on suitable invariant sets that can be built using both…
The applications of reference governors to systems with unmeasured set-bounded disturbances can lead to conservative solutions. This conservatism can be reduced by estimating the disturbance from output measurements and canceling it in the…
This letter presents a constrained control framework that integrates Explicit Reference Governors (ERG) with Control Barrier Functions (CBF) to ensure recursive feasibility without online optimization. We formulate the reference update as a…
This paper introduces a novel closed-form strategy that dynamically modifies the reference of a pre-compensated nonlinear system to ensure the satisfaction of a set of convex constraints. The main idea consists of translating constraints in…
This paper proposes a control architecture integrating adaptation with Lyapunov-based Reference Governors (LRGs) to ensure state constraint satisfaction for first-order systems with parametric uncertainties. Adaptation combined with LRGs…
The prediction-based nonlinear reference governor (PRG) is an add-on algorithm to enforce constraints on pre-stabilized nonlinear systems by modifying, whenever necessary, the reference signal. The implementation of PRG carries a heavy…
This paper presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for constrained linear systems. First, a new variant of the Reference Governor (RG) called At Once Reference Governor (AORG) is introduced. The AORG is distinguished from the conventional…
This paper presents a computationally efficient solution for constraint management of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) systems. The solution, referred to as the Decoupled Reference Governor (DRG), maintains the highly-attractive…
This paper introduces a novel attitude controller for spacecraft subject to actuator saturation and multiple exclusion cone constraints. The proposed solution relies on a two-layer approach where the first layer prestabilizes the system…
This paper considers constrained spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD) in the setting of the Bicircular Restricted Four-Body Problem (BCR4BP), while accounting for attitude dynamics. We consider Line of Sight (LoS) cone constraints,…
This paper presents a simple approach to low-thrust optimal-fuel and optimal-time transfer problems between two elliptic orbits using the Cartesian coordinates system. In this case, an orbit is described by its specific angular momentum and…