非合作目标交会相对导航方法研究

本文对一类非合作目标交会的相对导航问题进行了研究。基于近圆轨道上运行的非合作目标航天器初始轨道、追踪航天器在惯性空间的瞬时位置及追踪航天器到目标航天器的视线仰角和方位角等信息,文章从相对距离和相对姿态的确定及相对导航滤波器的设计三方面入手,提出了相对位置和相对速度等相对导航参数的获取方法。数学仿真验证了该方法的有效性。     

共面快速受控绕飞轨迹设计与控制

绕飞运动在航天器在轨服务与在轨支援、辅助航天员舱外活动、航天器编队飞行、空间交会对接等空间活动中具有重要应用。分析了快速受控绕飞的可行性和主要过程，建立了适用于目标航天器运行在圆轨道上的共面快速绕飞和进入绕飞与退出绕飞的轨迹设计模型，采用多速度脉冲控制方法和等角度，等时间控制方式对绕飞轨迹进行控制。仿真计算结果表明所提出的快速受控绕飞轨迹设计模型和控制方法可以实现对圆轨道目标航天器的共面快速受控绕飞。     

空间停靠动力学和控制

本文研究空间停靠是广义的，它包括停留和靠近两个内容。本文首先研究空间靠近动力学方程；其次讨论保持点的动力学特性和保持点轨迹稳定的必要条件；最后介绍靠近段安全可靠的控制策略，其中包括主动稳定保持点轨迹的控制方案。     

自主交会对接绕飞轨道的双冲量控制改进算法

绕飞轨道控制是追踪器与非合作目标进行自主交会对接的关键技术。本文针对同轨道平面的绕飞问题,根据双冲量轨道逼近动力学特性,将绕飞轨道分解为两个逼近轨道,采用有摄动情况下双冲量轨道逼近改进算法实现绕飞轨道控制。绕飞控制时,在轨道误差范围内,数次冲量累计同时施加,减少由于单次冲量小而造成的较大相对误差。最后进行了数学仿真,仿真结果表明该算法能实现绕飞轨道控制,具有设计简单、燃料消耗少的特点。     

针对失控翻滚目标航天器的交会对接控制

研究了一个受控的追踪航天器和一个失控慢速翻滚的目标航天器的末段交会对接控制问题。通过引入基于特征模型的控制方法,设计了相对位置跟踪控制器以及姿态同步控制器,克服了针对目标航天器测量中存在的较大不确定时延,航天器动力学参数的不确定性,以及追踪航天器存在的较大帆板挠性,实现了针对失控自旋目标的末段精确交会对接控制。最后,通过搭建仿真系统进行动力学仿真,进一步验证了本文控制策略的有效性。     

Online generation of quasi-optimal spacecraft rendezvous trajectories

A direct method for rapid generation of combined time-propellant near-optimal trajectories of proximity maneuvers of a chaser spacecraft required to dock a target one, with predetermined thrust history along a master direction, is presented. The predetermined thrust history is generated by applying the Pontryagin maximum principle. The new direct method, already implemented and tested on board real aircraft, is based on three concepts: high-order polynomials as reference functions, preset on–off sequence of a master control, and reduction of the optimization problem to the determination of a small set of parameters. Presetting the master control, the remaining controls act as slaves, guarantying the chaser to move along the desired path. Seeking of the optimum strategy is transformed into a nonlinear programming problem, and then numerically solved through an ad hoc algorithm in accelerated time scale. Examples are reported to prove the rapidness of the approach to generate a sub-optimal docking trajectory.     

航天器内部液体晃动对交会对接动力学与控制的影响

本文从力学变分原理出发,建立了交会对接过程中追踪飞行器与目标飞行器的动力学方程,导出了两个飞行器之间的相对运动方程。以此为基础,讨论了最后逼近阶段的平移过程中,追踪飞行器内部液体的晃动规律,并进一步对飞行器之间的相对运动做了定性分析,论述了液体的晃动对交会对接相对运动中的动力学与控制的影响。     

Automatic rendez-vous scheme proposed for an unmanned (or manned) vehicle with a space station

A method for automatic rendez-vous between an active vehicle, and a passive orbiting vehicle (typically a space station on a circular orbit) is presented. The main interest of the method is the simplicity of system implementation, and the small requirements on vehicle maneuvres and on-board computations, rather than in the mathematical optimization of fuel expenditure or elapsed time.The chaser is at first put on a circular orbit, lower and nearly coplanar to the orbit of the target (space station). An open-loop transfer of the chaser is performed, in order to put it in a window appropriated for automatic rendez-vous. When the relative distance of the two vehicles is small enough, a radar is used on the chaser for continuous determination of relative position and speed. An on-board computer is used then to derive the moments of application of corrective thrusts and their orientation. The scheme leads to a series of corrections nearly equally spaced in time, and the chaser approaches the target exponentially. Out of plane errors are also corrected. When the vehicles are close, the docking phase is initiated, which can be performed either automatically or manually. Even in manual control, an automatic loop is used in order to give the pilot simple motions in response to the control.     

Relative position and attitude estimation of spacecrafts based on dual quaternion for rendezvous and docking

The capacity to acquire the relative position and attitude information between the chaser and the target satellites in real time is one of the necessary prerequisites for the successful implementation of autonomous rendezvous and docking. This paper addresses a vision based relative position and attitude estimation algorithm for the final phase of spacecraft rendezvous and docking. By assuming that the images of feature points on the target satellite lie within the convex regions, the estimation of the relative position and attitude is converted into solving a convex optimization problem in which the dual quaternion method is employed to represent the rotational and translational transformation between the chaser body frame and the target body frame. Due to the point-to-region correspondence instead of the point-to-point correspondence is used, the proposed estimation algorithm shows good performance in robustness which is verified through computer simulations.     

航天器交会对接发射时间的选择与确定

在航天器交会对接飞行试验中,追踪飞船与目标飞船发射时间的选择不是独立的,而是相互关联的,并且涉及多方面因素,如轨道共面要求、对太阳电池帆板的日照角限制以及最终平移段目标飞船的照明需求等。综合考虑这些约束条件,提出追踪飞船与目标飞船发射时间选择与确定的方法,并以图表形式给出许多模拟计算结果,对航天器交会对接设计与飞行试验具有应用价值。     

航天器交会对接中GPS的应用

卫星定位和卫星通讯是正在寻求的空间飞行器高级自主交会系统的首选测控手段。本文概述了航天器的交会对接基本要求和过程以及美国全球定位系统（ＧＰＳ）和组成、定位原理、精度和差分原理后，列出了两种形式的相对运动方程。利用运动方程求解、单纯ＧＰＳ、差分ＧＰＳ的结合，可以完成追踪航天器向目标航天器接近的整个导引过程，且可以省去庞大的地面遥控遥测、星上雷达等设备，减少误差源。仿真计算证实了这一设计思想的可行性和     

对接靠拢段的一种相对导航算法研究

自主相对导航技术是空间交会对接靠拢段的关键技术之一。Unscented卡尔曼滤波(UKF)是基于Unscented Transform(UT)变换的一种新型滤波器,它避免了扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)的线性化误差,不必计算Jacobian矩阵,而且其状态估计精度要比EKF的高。本文研究了基于UKF滤波器的自主相对导航算法。该算法根据追踪航天器上交会雷达的测量值,采用UKF滤波器对追踪航天器和目标航天器之间的相对位置和速度进行了估计,仿真结果表明该算法可以满足位置和速度估计精度的要求。     

航天器装配定位机构的设计与实现

航天器装配定位机构是重要的技术改造项目之一,用于舱段精密对接与分解,其通过与空间定位系统、自动起吊装置的配合,实现舱段对接与分解过程的量化识别与自动控制。该机构主要设计有质心捕获、自动调平和旋转等功能,为舱段对接与分解提供基础支撑平台、航天器空间姿态调整和相关数据支持。文章阐述了航天器装配定位机构原理,并对其主要功能的实现方法进行了设计。     

近距离航天器相对轨道的鲁棒自适应控制

针对近距离航天器的相对轨道提出了一种鲁棒自适应控制律。在追踪星本体坐标系中考虑航天器的相对运动。首先,在转动惯量未知的情形下提出了自适应控制律,保证系统的全局渐近稳定性。其次,将两星地心引力加速度之差作为干扰加速度,并假设干扰有未知上界,对自适应控制律进行修正,提出了鲁棒自适应律,使得系统是全局一致最终有界稳定的。控制律的设计不需要绝对轨道信息,适用于任意轨道。对航天器编队飞行和空间交会两种情形分别进行了仿真分析,结果表明所设计的控制律是合理有效的。     

基于MicroSim仿真平台的航天器交会对接物理仿真系统

航天器交会对接物理仿真是进行交会对接技术地面试验和验证的一种行之有效的方式,本文初步分析了利用微小卫星五自由度仿真平台M icroSim实现交会对接过程中测量方案、制导和控制策略以及GNC软件系统性能等仿真验证的物理仿真系统的可能性,简要介绍了M icroSim仿真平台,提出基于M icroSim仿真平台的航天器交会对接物理仿真系统总体方案。为建立我国的RVD物理仿真系统提供了一条快速低廉的有效途径。     

ARCADE small-scale docking mechanism for micro-satellites

The development of on-orbit autonomous rendezvous and docking (ARD) capabilities represents a key point for a number of appealing mission scenarios that include activities of on-orbit servicing, automated assembly of modular structures and active debris removal. As of today, especially in the field of micro-satellites ARD, many fundamental technologies are still missing or require further developments and micro-gravity testing.In this framework, the University of Padova, Centre of Studies and Activities for Space (CISAS), developed the Autonomous Rendezvous Control and Docking Experiment (ARCADE), a technology demonstrator intended to fly aboard a BEXUS stratospheric balloon. The goal was to design, build and test, in critical environment conditions, a proximity relative navigation system, a custom-made reaction wheel and a small-size docking mechanism.The ARCADE docking mechanism was designed against a comprehensive set of requirements and it can be classified as small-scale, central, gender mating and unpressurized. The large use of commercial components makes it low-cost and simple to be manufactured. Last, it features a good tolerance to off-nominal docking conditions and a by-design soft docking capability.The final design was extensively verified to be compliant with its requirements by means of numerical simulations and physical testing. In detail, the dynamic behaviour of the mechanism in both nominal and off-nominal conditions was assessed with the multibody dynamics analysis software MD ADAMS 2010 and functional tests were carried out within the fully integrated ARCADE experiment to ensure the docking system efficacy and to highlight possible issues. The most relevant results of the study will be presented and discussed in conclusion to this paper.     

Image based control of the “PINOCCHIO” experimental free flying platform

A free floating platform is realized with a pneumatic suspension system which enables a two-dimensional test of complex space operations, such as rendezvous and docking. The platform is equipped with a IMU and actuated via cold gas thrusters. In addition, an on-board camera is used to acquire a target and its image is processed for evaluating the control actions needed to reach it. A technique for determining the relative position and velocity with respect to target using the same visual device is proposed and realized. The novel algorithms and relevant experimental results are presented. The tested accuracy of the relative navigation system is not very high, but the guidance algorithm, which is image based and has just a weak dependence on the position information, is robust enough to perform a successful maneuver. The error between the final acquired target image and the desired final target image is of the order of one pixel, notwithstanding all the testbed disturbances.     

多约束交会对接发射窗口的分析和规划

针对交会对接任务对发射窗口的轨道日照角、光学导航测量设备阳光抑制角和轨道共面等多项约束,建立了交会对接发射窗口计算数学模型,给出了交会对接发射窗口计算方法与流程,分析了各种约束对交会对接发射窗口的影响。计算并构建了交会对接任务目标飞行器和追踪飞行器的年度日照发射窗口集合。按照2种任务规划思路分别给出了确定目标飞行器和追踪飞行器年度共面窗口集合的方法,为多约束交会对接年度发射窗口的日窗口和时刻窗口的分析和规划提供了清晰的结果。仿真结果验证了交会对接年度发射窗口集合的正确性和有效性,模型、方法和结果可作为交会对接任务发射窗口分析和规划的依据。
     

基于气浮台的编队飞行地面试验建模与鲁棒控制器设计

为分析验证卫星编队飞行涉及的相对导航、制导与控制以及星间通信等问题,搭建了编队飞行的地面试验系统,采用了一块3m×4.5m的气浮平台和具有两个平动自由度和一个转动自由度的卫星仿真器分别来模拟低阻力的空间环境和编队飞行的卫星,相对导航采用了视觉相机和室内GPS两种方案,星间通信则通过蓝牙进行模拟。推导了描述仿真器间相对运动的包含参数不确定性的动力学模型,并基于此模型设计了带极点配置的鲁棒H∞控制算法,通过姿态同步和构型保持等仿真实验重点对编队飞行的相对导航、星间通信和相对状态控制进行分析验证,对实际的编队任务具有一定的参考和指导意义。     

对无控旋转目标逼近的自适应滑模控制

对追踪器逼近无控旋转目标器的轨迹和姿态六自由度控制问题进行了研究.基于适用于任意偏心率的航天器相对运动轨道和姿态动力学模型,对追踪器逼近无控旋转目标的参考轨迹和参考姿态进行了分析与设计,推导了一种用于六自由度逼近控制的自适应滑模控制器.通过仿真分析,证明了所设计的逼近参考轨迹和参考姿态的合理性,同时验证了自适应滑模控制器的有效性.