Abstract Space mission design places a premium on cost and operational efficiency. The
search for new science and life beyond Earth calls for spacecraft that can deliver scientific …

Guidance and control (G&C) technologies play a central role in the development and
operation of vehicular systems. The emergence of computational guidance and control …

The problem of designing a rendezvous guidance maneuver plan robust to thrusting errors
is addressed in this paper. The aim of this paper is to develop tractable and robust guidance …

This work presents a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) that is able to handle Linear Time-
Varying (LTV) plants with Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) control. The MPC is based on a …

In previous works, the authors have developed a trajectory planning algorithm for spacecraft
rendezvous which computed optimal Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) control signals, for …

The optimal fuel impulsive time-fixed rendezvous problem is reviewed. In a linear setting, it
may be reformulated as a non-convex polynomial optimization problem for a pre-specified …

The fundamental solutions of the Tschauner–Hempel equations, which describe the motion
of a deputy satellite relative to a chief satellite with arbitrary eccentricity, are interpreted …

This note aims at providing a concise and self-contained document that describes a clear
and easy-to-understand method, that could be useful for a reader that is approaching the …

This paper focuses on the fixed-time minimum-fuel out-of-plane (OOP) rendezvous between
close elliptic orbits of an active spacecraft, with a passive target spacecraft, assuming a …

In the 1960s, a moment approach to linear time varying (LTV) minimal norm impulsive
optimal control was developed, as an alternative to direct approaches (based on …