Title

Bio-Inspired Rendezvous Strategies and Respondent Detections

Authors

Authors

G. Basset; Y. J. Xu;K. Pham

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Guid. Control Dyn.

Keywords

PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; MOTION CAMOUFLAGE; SPACECRAFT; Engineering, Aerospace; Instruments & Instrumentation

Abstract

In nature, many biological species have devised simple yet effective motion strategies that help them with a variety of tasks, such as foraging and mating. One such phenomenon has been observed in hoverflies, in which a male hoverfly moves in a certain path and appears stationary from the viewpoint of a moving female hoverfly. The use of this new bio-inspired strategy has recently been considered for rendezvous tasks in space situation-awareness missions. In this paper, the feasibilities of applying such a rendezvous strategy to free-flying (i.e., zero applied control acceleration) space vehicles and the respondent detections of such motion strategies to prevent orbital collisions are investigated in the local vertical and local horizontal frame. Algorithms for nontrivial free-flying scenarios are derived for both fixed and free-flying spacecraft. The extended Kalman filter is designed to demonstrate the ability to detect and monitor these types of rendezvous motions.

Journal Title

Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

Volume

36

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

64

Last Page

73

WOS Identifier

WOS:000314435300005

ISSN

0731-5090

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