Rendezvous in cislunar halo orbits: Hardware-in-the-loop simulation with coupled orbit and attitude dynamics

V Muralidharan, MR Makhdoomi, KR Barad… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Space missions to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs) in the Earth–Moon system
are upcoming. A rendezvous technique in cislunar space is proposed in this investigation …

Adaptive control for multi-rotor UAVs autonomous ship landing with mission planning

K Xia, S Lee, H Son - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The autonomous ship landing control issue of multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
is investigated. To achieve the ship landing operation efficiently and precisely, a novel …

Guidance, navigation and control for 6DOF rendezvous in Cislunar multi-body environment

A Colagrossi, V Pesce, L Bucci, F Colombi… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies highlighted the benefits of a support infrastructure located in Cislunar
environment, which would ease the design of forthcoming space missions with a favorable …

Utilizing the geometric mechanics framework to predict attitude in a full ephemeris model of the Cislunar region

A Anderson, B McCann, D Canales, M Nazari - … in Nonlinear Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting the attitude of spacecraft traveling within the Cislunar region is crucial to ensure
the success of future missions planned within that realm of space. To consider the coupled …

[PDF][PDF] Full n-body problem in the geometric mechanics framework and its reduction to circular restricted full three-body problem

M Nazari, D Canales Garcia… - AIAA/AAS …, 2022 - engineering.purdue.edu
A compact formalism for rigid body motion dynamics is presented in a general reference
frame based on geometric mechanics. This formalism, proposed on the special Euclidean …

Hardware-in-the-loop proximity operations in cislunar space

V Muralidharan, MR Makhdoomi, KR Barad… - 2022 - orbilu.uni.lu
[en] Space missions to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs) in the Earth-Moon system are
upcoming. A rendezvous technique in the cislunar space is proposed in this investigation …

[PDF][PDF] Orbit and Attitude Coupling in the Full Higher-fidelity Ephemeris Model within the Context of the Geometric Mechanics Framework

A Anderson, B McCann, D Canales… - AAS/AIAA Spaceflight …, 2023 - researchgate.net
It is crucial to be able to predict the attitude of spacecraft to guarantee mission success
within the Cislunar realm. To that end, the orbit/attitude coupling for the full N-body problem …

Framework for the full N-body problem in SE (3) and its reduction to the circular restricted full three-body problem

M Nazari, D Canales, B McCann, E Butcher… - Celestial Mechanics and …, 2023 - Springer
A novel, compact formalism of rigid body motion dynamics is presented in a general
reference frame based on the geometric mechanics framework. This formalism, proposed on …

[PDF][PDF] Benefits of Using a Variational Integrator for the Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem

H Gunter, A Anderson, M Nazari… - AIAA/AAS …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Simultaneous tracking of orbit and attitude in multibody systems is essential for accurately
understanding motion. The cislunar region is effectively modeled using the circular restricted …

Melnikov-based analysis for chaotic dynamics of spin-orbit motion of a gyrostat satellite

SM Abtahi - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Interactions of the orbital motion on attitude dynamics of the gyrostat satellite are considered
in this paper. The mathematical model is derived using the Hamiltonian method for the spin …