Autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking on safe trajectories

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Büyükkoçak, Ali Tevfik

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In this thesis, rendezvous and docking operation of a pair of low earth orbit spacecraft is addressed. Two different sets of equations for the nonlinear orbital relative motion of spacecraft are derived and simulation codes for this motion are developed. First, Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire (HCW) equations are used in chaser-target spacecraft configuration with Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm including some safety considerations such as debris avoidance, direction of approach constraint and slow impact requirement. The HCW equations are linearized assuming a circular orbit, and used in MPC algorithm. All authority is given to the chaser spacecraft, and the target is kept passive. Parametric studies are implemented for different cases with several constraint combinations. According to these studies, best planning horizon length and optimal weighting parameter are selected for each case. The safe trajectory generated by MPC approach, which avoids a relatively moving debris represented as an obstacle, is tracked by a novel Lyapunov based control algorithm as well. The algorithm is based on dual quaternions for the motion parametrization and provides a combined control of both translational and rotational motion. Another set of relative motion dynamics including combined attitude and position is derived. An error dual quaternion and its derivative are generated from desired attitude and position information. While desired attitude trajectory is a time-dependent polynomial function, the reference position trajectory is retrieved from MPC plan. Two control approaches are compared, and effectiveness of dual quaternion based control approach is demonstrated.

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Space vehicles, Space vehicles, Space vehicles

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12622612/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/27529

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. T. Büyükkoçak, “Autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking on safe trajectories,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2018.