Study of highly perturbed spacecraft formation dynamics via approximation

This paper explores methods for approximating and analyzing the dynamics of highly perturbed spacecraft formations with an emphasis on computationally efficient approaches. This facilitates on-board computation or rapid preliminary mission design analysis. Perturbed formation dynamics are often approximated as linear time-varying (LTV) systems, for which Floquet theory can be used to analyze the degree of system instability. Furthermore, the angular momentum of the relative orbital state can be computed with the approximate dynamics to provide additional insight. A general methodology is developed first and then applied to the problem of unstable formation dynamics in asteroid orbits. Here the dominant perturbative effects due to low-order gravitational harmonics and solar radiation pressure are modeled. Numerical simulations validate the approach and illustrate the approximation accuracy achieved.     

Fully distributed time-varying formation tracking control for multiple quadrotor vehicles via finite-time convergent extended state observer

This paper investigates a time-varying anti-disturbance formation problem for a group of quadrotor aircrafts with time-varying uncertainties and a directed interaction topology. A novel Finite-Time Convergent Extended State Observer (FTCESO) based fully-distributed formation control scheme is proposed to enhance the disturbance rejection and the formation tracking performances for networked quadrotors. By adopting the hierarchical control strategy, the multi-quadrotor system is separated into two subsystems: the outer-loop cooperative subsystem and the inner-loop attitude subsystem. In the outer-loop subsystem, with the estimation of disturbing forces and uncertain dynamics from FTCESOs, an adaptive consensus theory based cooperative controller is exploited to ensure the multiple quadrotors form and maintain a time-varying pattern relying only on the positions of the neighboring aircrafts. In the inner-loop subsystem, the desired attitude generated by the cooperative control law is stably tracked under a FTCESO-based attitude controller in a finite time. Based on a detailed algorithm to specify the cooperative control protocol, the feasibility condition to achieve the time-varying anti-disturbance formation tracking is derived and the rigorous analysis of the whole closed-loop multi-quadrotor system is given. Some numerical examples are conducted to intuitively demonstrate the effectiveness and the improvements of the proposed control framework.     

气动力星座保持的闭环控制研究

本文研究了利用气动力进行星座保持的闭环控制问题。提出了一种改进的半全局指数收敛闭环控制律，对于指定的任意大的有界域，利用不变集定理论上证明了该控制律的稳定性和抗干扰性，又提出了双ε法以提高响应速度。     

航天器编队飞行及其关键技术的开发

简要论述由分布式航天器系统构成的空间编队飞行的概念 ,扼要介绍 NASA为未来航天器编队飞行项目开发的几项关键技术 ,着重阐明基于 GPS的分散式编队飞行控制和相对导航技术能充当未来多星编队飞行任务的导航系统 ,从而使未来的空间科学研究发生深刻变化     

中低轨道卫星星座间的激光链路

阐述在中低轨道卫星星座全球通讯网络中应用的激光星间链路与在中继星间应用的激光星间链路相比，所具有的明显的优势。同时给出了应用于小卫星上的小光学用户终端的基本组成，并指出了当前在中低轨道卫星星座激光星间链路研究中所应当进行的主要研究方面。     

编队飞行卫星群的轨道动力学特性与构形设计

编队飞行卫星群由一些相对距离近的小卫星组成,在严格的条件下,若干颗伴随卫星环绕一颗中心卫星作相对运动,相对轨道为特别性质的椭圆,本文研究了编队飞行卫星群的轨道动力学特性,提出了编队飞行的轨道构形设计的原则和方法。     

卫星姿态控制稳定度对星座结构稳定性的影响

针对三轴姿态稳定卫星,推导了在考虑航天器姿态控制偏差时轨道控制偏差的计算公式。在考虑脉冲推力情况下得到了存在姿态控制偏差时的轨道控制误差,并分析了姿态控制稳定度导致的轨道参数偏差对星座结构稳定性的长期影响。最后对姿态控制稳定度导致的星座结构稳定性的长期影响进行了仿真分析。     

卫星星座系统多学科设计优化研究

分析了卫星星座系统设计包含的星座设计、卫星设计、发射选择等学科之间的耦合关系，特别是卫星各分系统之间的耦合关系，建立了包括发射费用分析、成本分析在内的卫星星座系统多学科分析模型。在此基础上，采用分布式协同进化MDO算法，将星座设计优化和卫星的设计优化在自治基础上充分协同，对一个同时包含离散／连续设计变量、需进行星座结构和参数同时优化的虚拟的海洋监视卫星星座系统进行了多学科设计优化。算法对离散设计变量采用二进制编码，连续设计变量采用实数编码，并分别采用相应的进化算子。采用最大长度编码，根据一定的规则确定基因的显性和隐性，来处理结构和参数同时优化引起的设计变量维数可变的问题。设计结果显示了多学科设计优化的优势和分布式协同进化MDO算法对卫星星座系统这样的复杂多学科设计优化问题的有效性.     

一种改进的区域覆盖星座优化设计方法

为缩短区域覆盖星座优化设计的计算时间，对网格点仿真法进行了改进。在统计时间内，以解析法计算卫星覆盖时刻集，并采用遗传算法优化星座参数。仿真计算结果表明，本文改进方法的计算时间仅为优化前的百分之一。