Applications of Adaptive Non-Singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control to Rendezvous with Malfunctioning Clients

Abstract

This paper presents the research performed within the first year of a Karle's Fellowship, which investigates how to autonomously control an inspection vehicle towards a malfunctioning client to accomplish inspection related tasks. The objective of this research is to develop a finite-time relative position control framework to enable an inspection satellite to safely approach a malfunctioning client vehicle, whose ability to communicate has been hindered, rendering it unable to communicate at all during a proximity maneuver. Malfunctioning clients present unique challenges, namely that the state of the client is considered unknown a priori and the inspector may not benefit from accurate and continuous information provided by the client vehicle; the client vehicle may also be subject to maneuvering and disturbances, unknown to the inspector a priori.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 25, 2022
Accession Number
AD1181172

Entities

People

  • Bryan P. Hoskins

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Computational Complexity
  • Control
  • Control Systems
  • Control Theory
  • Convergence
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Kalman Filters
  • Line Of Sight
  • Maneuvers
  • Orbital Elements
  • Orbits
  • Relative Motion
  • Rendezvous
  • Rendezvous Trajectories
  • Simulations
  • Spacecraft
  • Trajectories
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers