Optimal Impulsive Maneuver for Satellite FormationKeeping with Fuel Balancing

Modelling and Optimal Control of a Docking Maneuver with an Uncontrolled Satellite

Capturing disused satellites in orbit and their controlled reentry is the aim of the DEOS space mission. Satellites that ran out of fuel or got damaged pose a threat to working projects in orbit. Additionally, the reentry of such objects endangers the population as the place of impact cannot be controlled anymore. This paper demonstrates the modelling of a rendezvous szenario between a controll...

Fuel Optimized Rotation for Satellite

This paper considers the problem of rotating a formation of satellites from one orientation to another, using an optimal amount of fuel. The formation is constrained to have the same shape at the beginning and end of a maneuver. However , the shape is unconstrained throughout the maneuver. This implies that to optimize fuel, each spacecraft travels in a straight line, from its beginning to end ...

Fuel-Optimal Spacecraft Rendezvous with Hybrid On–Off Continuous and Impulsive Thrust

J = cost function N = number of impulses NLT = number of low-thrust-independent thrusters p = primer-vector magnitude p = primer vector pm = primer-vector absolute maximum r = relative position vector rj = space collocation of the jth impulse tf = final time tint = intermediate time tj = time instant of the jth impulse application tm = midcourse time corresponding to the primer absolute maximum...

Optimal Maneuver for Multiple Air raft

Fuel Optimization for ConstrainedRotation of Satellite

This paper considers the problem of reorienting a constellation of spacecraft such that the fuel distributed across the constellation is both conserved and expended uniformly. The spacecraft constellation is controlled to reorient while maintaining the relative positions of the spacecraft such that the constellation is held in formation throughout the maneuver. The basic idea is to pick a point...