AI-Driven Risk-Aware Scheduling for Active Debris Removal Missions

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Main Authors: Poupon, Antoine, Willner, Hugo de Rohan, Nikitits, Pierre, Abdin, Adam
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Published: 2024
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author Poupon, Antoine
Willner, Hugo de Rohan
Nikitits, Pierre
Abdin, Adam
author_facet Poupon, Antoine
Willner, Hugo de Rohan
Nikitits, Pierre
Abdin, Adam
contents The proliferation of debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) represents a significant threat to space sustainability and spacecraft safety. Active Debris Removal (ADR) has emerged as a promising approach to address this issue, utilising Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) to facilitate debris deorbiting, thereby reducing future collision risks. However, ADR missions are substantially complex, necessitating accurate planning to make the missions economically viable and technically effective. Moreover, these servicing missions require a high level of autonomous capability to plan under evolving orbital conditions and changing mission requirements. In this paper, an autonomous decision-planning model based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is developed to train an OTV to plan optimal debris removal sequencing. It is shown that using the proposed framework, the agent can find optimal mission plans and learn to update the planning autonomously to include risk handling of debris with high collision risk.
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spellingShingle AI-Driven Risk-Aware Scheduling for Active Debris Removal Missions
Poupon, Antoine
Willner, Hugo de Rohan
Nikitits, Pierre
Abdin, Adam
Artificial Intelligence
The proliferation of debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) represents a significant threat to space sustainability and spacecraft safety. Active Debris Removal (ADR) has emerged as a promising approach to address this issue, utilising Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) to facilitate debris deorbiting, thereby reducing future collision risks. However, ADR missions are substantially complex, necessitating accurate planning to make the missions economically viable and technically effective. Moreover, these servicing missions require a high level of autonomous capability to plan under evolving orbital conditions and changing mission requirements. In this paper, an autonomous decision-planning model based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is developed to train an OTV to plan optimal debris removal sequencing. It is shown that using the proposed framework, the agent can find optimal mission plans and learn to update the planning autonomously to include risk handling of debris with high collision risk.
title AI-Driven Risk-Aware Scheduling for Active Debris Removal Missions
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17012