Title

Bio-Inspired Rendezvous Strategies And Respondent Detections

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. Copyright © 2012 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volume

36

Issue

1

Number of Pages

64-73

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2514/1.57921

Socpus ID

84873635897 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84873635897

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