Autonomous in-orbit satellite assembly from a modular heterogeneous swarm

RC Foust, ES Lupu, YK Nakka, SJ Chung, FY Hadaegh - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a decentralized, distributed guidance and control scheme to combine a
heterogeneous swarm of component satellites into a large satellite structure. The component …

High-Accuracy, Vision-Based Attitude Estimation System for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators

F Ornati, G Di Domenico, P Panicucci… - Journal of Spacecraft and …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Air-bearing platforms for simulating the attitude dynamics of satellites require highly accurate
ground truth systems. Commercial off-the-shelf motion-capture systems are used for this …

A feasible study on the model predictive control for docking approach of small spacecraft using thrusters and a control moment gyro

K Tsujita - 2023 IEEE/ASME International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with maneuver control for the autonomous docking of two small spacecraft
in a rendezvous flight. Due to hardware constraints, maneuver control suppressing fuel …

Relative-motion trajectory generation and maintenance for multi-spacecraft swarms

R Rughani - 2021 - search.proquest.com
This work investigates methods for spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO)
for swarms of spacecraft operating cooperatively. Swarm RPO is the task of operating a …

Using genetic algorithms for safe swarm trajectory optimization

D Barnhart, R Rughani, T Presser - US Patent App. 17/568,462, 2022 - Google Patents
A control system includes a target spacecraft and a swarm of chaser spacecraft. Each chaser
spacecraft is controlled to follow a corresponding computed trajectory. The system also …

[PDF][PDF] Sensor Fusion Kalman Filtering for Stability and Control of Satellite Swarms

R Rughani, DA Barnhart - … , Cape Town, South Africa-3-5 May, 2021 - rahulrughani.com
With the emergence of the space servicing sector, along with the return of manned missions
beyond low earth orbit, there is a need for quick, efficient, and most of all, safe Rendezvous …

小型宇宙機の自律ドッキングのための最適制御

西村杏純, 辻田勝吉 - ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集 …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 In recent years, the number of small spacecraft missions has been increasing rapidly
due to reducing spacecraft development costs and diversification of functions. This research …

小型宇宙機のランデブーから自律ドッキングまでの最適マヌーバ制御

辻田勝吉 - ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集2023, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 In recent years, the number of small spacecraft missions has been increasing rapidly
due to reducing spacecraft development costs and diversification of functions. This research …