Fast Cooperative Trajectory Optimization for Close-Range Satellite Formation Using Bezier Shape-Based Method

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Title: Fast Cooperative Trajectory Optimization for Close-Range Satellite Formation Using Bezier Shape-Based Method
Authors: Zichen Fan, Mingying Huo, Song Xu, Jun Zhao, Naiming Qi
Source: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 30918-30927 (2020)
Publisher Information: IEEE, 2020.
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Subject Terms: Bezier shape-based method, close-range satellites formation, collision-avoidance, low-thrust trajectory approximation, preliminary mission analysis, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
More Details: Close-range formation flying of multiple satellites is an important technology for future space missions, where formation reconfiguration is a very important field and needs to design suitable flight paths and consider the risk of collisions between satellites. This paper uses the Bezier shape-based (SB) method to rapidly generate the low-thrust collision-avoidance flight paths in the formation reconfiguration. The reconfiguration process of two satellite formations is considered and compared with the finite Fourier series (FFS) method. The simulation results show that the Bezier method spends less computation time to obtain better performance index than the FFS method. In order to verify the applicability of the results obtained by the Bezier method to a direct solver, the results are applied to the Gauss pseudospectral method (GPM) solver as an initial guess. The results show that the Bezier method can take a short time to design suitable initial collision-avoidance flight paths for an direct optimization solver. This is very important for the rapid feasibility evaluation of numerous flight scenarios at the stage of initial mission design and onboard flight paths generation.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2169-3536
Relation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952712/; https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2964881
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/9dc6e02785984fca88a2d0a436f0f179
Accession Number: edsdoj.9dc6e02785984fca88a2d0a436f0f179
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:21693536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2964881
Published in:IEEE Access
Language:English