The paper considers the application of feedback control to orbital transfer maneuvers subject to constraints on the spacecraft thrust and on avoiding the collision with the primary body. Incremental reference governor (IRG) strategies are developed to complement the nominal Lyapunov controller, derived based on Gauss Variational Equations, and enforce the constraints. Simulation results are reported that demonstrate the successful constrained orbital transfer maneuvers with the proposed approach. A Lyapunov function based IRG and a prediction-based IRG are compared. While both implementations successfully enforce the constraints, a prediction-based IRG is shown to result in faster maneuvers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.09853,
title = {Reference Governor for Constrained Spacecraft Orbital Transfers},
author = {Simone Semeraro and Ilya Kolmanovsky and Emanuele Garone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09853},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
17 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Advanced Control for Applications