The NASA’s Artemis project intends to bring humans back to the Moon in the next decade. A key element of the project will be the Lunar Gateway, a space station placed in a peculiar, near rectilinear Halo orbit in the vicinity of a collinear libration point in the Earth–Moon system. This study focuses on the high-fidelity description of the relative orbit dynamics of a chaser spacecraft with respect to the Gateway, as well as on the design of a proper orbit control strategy for rendezvous maneuvers. A novel formulation of the Battin–Giorgi approach is introduced, in which the reference orbit is that traveled by the Gateway, i.e., it is a highly non-Keplerian, perturbed orbit. The modified Battin–Giorgi approach allows for the description of a relative orbit motion with no restrictive assumption, while including all the relevant orbit perturbations on both the chaser and the Gateway. Moreover, nonlinear hybrid predictive control is introduced as a feedback guidance strategy. This new technique is shown to outperform the classical, well-established feedback linearization in terms of success rate and accuracy on the final conditions. Moreover, a Monte Carlo analysis confirms that hybrid predictive control is also effective in the presence of the temporary unavailability of propulsion or thrust misalignment.
Orbit rendezvous maneuvers in cislunar space via nonlinear hybrid predictive control / Sanna, D.; Madonna, D. P.; Pontani, M.; Gasbarri, P.. - In: DYNAMICS. - ISSN 2673-8716. - 4:3(2024), pp. 609-642. [10.3390/dynamics4030032]
Orbit rendezvous maneuvers in cislunar space via nonlinear hybrid predictive control
Madonna D. P.;Pontani M.;Gasbarri P.
2024
Abstract
The NASA’s Artemis project intends to bring humans back to the Moon in the next decade. A key element of the project will be the Lunar Gateway, a space station placed in a peculiar, near rectilinear Halo orbit in the vicinity of a collinear libration point in the Earth–Moon system. This study focuses on the high-fidelity description of the relative orbit dynamics of a chaser spacecraft with respect to the Gateway, as well as on the design of a proper orbit control strategy for rendezvous maneuvers. A novel formulation of the Battin–Giorgi approach is introduced, in which the reference orbit is that traveled by the Gateway, i.e., it is a highly non-Keplerian, perturbed orbit. The modified Battin–Giorgi approach allows for the description of a relative orbit motion with no restrictive assumption, while including all the relevant orbit perturbations on both the chaser and the Gateway. Moreover, nonlinear hybrid predictive control is introduced as a feedback guidance strategy. This new technique is shown to outperform the classical, well-established feedback linearization in terms of success rate and accuracy on the final conditions. Moreover, a Monte Carlo analysis confirms that hybrid predictive control is also effective in the presence of the temporary unavailability of propulsion or thrust misalignment.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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