Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Elango, Purnanand, Vinod, Abraham P., Kitamura, Kenji, Açıkmeşe, Behçet, Di Cairano, Stefano, Weiss, Avishai
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866913854870519808
author Elango, Purnanand
Vinod, Abraham P.
Kitamura, Kenji
Açıkmeşe, Behçet
Di Cairano, Stefano
Weiss, Avishai
author_facet Elango, Purnanand
Vinod, Abraham P.
Kitamura, Kenji
Açıkmeşe, Behçet
Di Cairano, Stefano
Weiss, Avishai
contents We present an optimization-based approach for fuel-efficient spacecraft rendezvous to the Gateway, a space station that will be deployed on a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. The approach: i) ensures passive safety and satisfies path constraints at all times, ii) meets the specifications for critical decision points along the trajectory, iii) accounts for uncertainties that are common in real-world operation, such as due to orbital insertion, actuation, and navigation measurement, via chance constraints and utilizes a stabilizing feedback controller to bound the effect of uncertainties. We leverage sequential convex programming (SCP) and isoperimetric reformulation of path constraints, including passive safety, to eliminate the risk of inter-sample constraint violations that is common in existing methods. We demonstrate the proposed approach on a realistic simulation of a rendezvous to the Gateway.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2505_17251
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit
Elango, Purnanand
Vinod, Abraham P.
Kitamura, Kenji
Açıkmeşe, Behçet
Di Cairano, Stefano
Weiss, Avishai
Optimization and Control
We present an optimization-based approach for fuel-efficient spacecraft rendezvous to the Gateway, a space station that will be deployed on a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. The approach: i) ensures passive safety and satisfies path constraints at all times, ii) meets the specifications for critical decision points along the trajectory, iii) accounts for uncertainties that are common in real-world operation, such as due to orbital insertion, actuation, and navigation measurement, via chance constraints and utilizes a stabilizing feedback controller to bound the effect of uncertainties. We leverage sequential convex programming (SCP) and isoperimetric reformulation of path constraints, including passive safety, to eliminate the risk of inter-sample constraint violations that is common in existing methods. We demonstrate the proposed approach on a realistic simulation of a rendezvous to the Gateway.
title Successive Convexification for Passively-Safe Spacecraft Rendezvous on Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17251