Space Vehicle Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Estimation
Abstract
Old Dominion University Research Foundation Grant #: FA9453-15-1-0307 “Space Vehicle Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Estimation Operations Technologies” Abstract This proposal addresses investigation of new guidance, navigation, control, and estimation technologies applied to multi-satellite formation flight, space-based terrestrial object multilateration, space-based space object multilateration, and other related areas such as close proximity operations, space situational awareness, and resident space object determination. The proposed techniques are innovative and promising in the sense that new modeling frameworks, their solutions, and subsequent algorithms applied to satellite relative motion and space or terrestrial object localization are largely unexplored in the literature, and preliminary results show potentially distinct advantages in the areas of dynamical system insight, model propagative accuracy, and flight algorithm utility when compared to more conventional approaches commonly used today. The proposed research accomplishes public purpose objectives in several ways. The research supports public access to 1) satellite-based services such as navigation, weather, television, and radio by providing more accurate methods for controlling the positions of satellites, and 2) satellite-based manufacturing of medical, biological, and material products, and energy by providing enhanced micro-gravity environments. The research enhances 3) public safety by decreasing the risk of operational spacecraft accidents that could potentially harm the general populace, and 4) public education by increasing knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for primary, secondary, and higher education levels.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 18, 2016
- Source ID
- FA94531510307
Entities
People
- Brett Newman
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Old Dominion University
- United States Air Force