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Main Authors: Zhou, Hang, Meng, Tao, Wang, Kun, Shi, Chengrui, Mao, Renhao, Wang, Weijia, Lei, Jiakun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13672
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author Zhou, Hang
Meng, Tao
Wang, Kun
Shi, Chengrui
Mao, Renhao
Wang, Weijia
Lei, Jiakun
author_facet Zhou, Hang
Meng, Tao
Wang, Kun
Shi, Chengrui
Mao, Renhao
Wang, Weijia
Lei, Jiakun
contents This study addresses the challenge of ensuring safe spacecraft proximity operations, focusing on collision avoidance between a chaser spacecraft and a complex-geometry target spacecraft under disturbances. To ensure safety in such scenarios, a safe robust control framework is proposed that leverages implicit neural representations. To handle arbitrary target geometries without explicit modeling, a neural signed distance function (SDF) is learned from point cloud data via a enhanced implicit geometric regularization method, which incorporates an over-apporximation strategy to create a conservative, safety-prioritized boundary. The target's surface is implicitly defined by the zero-level set of the learned neural SDF, while the values and gradients provide critical information for safety controller design. This neural SDF representation underpins a two-layer hierarchcial safe robust control framework: a safe velocity generation layer and a safe robust controller layer. In the first layer, a second-order cone program is formulated to generate safety-guaranteed reference velocity by explicitly incorporating the under-approximation error bound. Furthermore, a circulation inequality is introduced to mitigate the local minimum issues commonly encountered in control barrier function (CBF) methods. The second layer features an integrated disturbance observer and a smooth safety filter explicitly compensating for estimation error, bolstering robustness to external disturbances. Extensive numerical simulations and Monte Carlo analysis validate the proposed framework, demonstrating significantly improved safety margins and avoidance of local minima compared to conventional CBF approaches.
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spellingShingle Spacecraft Safe Robust Control Using Implicit Neural Representation for Geometrically Complex Targets in Proximity Operations
Zhou, Hang
Meng, Tao
Wang, Kun
Shi, Chengrui
Mao, Renhao
Wang, Weijia
Lei, Jiakun
Systems and Control
This study addresses the challenge of ensuring safe spacecraft proximity operations, focusing on collision avoidance between a chaser spacecraft and a complex-geometry target spacecraft under disturbances. To ensure safety in such scenarios, a safe robust control framework is proposed that leverages implicit neural representations. To handle arbitrary target geometries without explicit modeling, a neural signed distance function (SDF) is learned from point cloud data via a enhanced implicit geometric regularization method, which incorporates an over-apporximation strategy to create a conservative, safety-prioritized boundary. The target's surface is implicitly defined by the zero-level set of the learned neural SDF, while the values and gradients provide critical information for safety controller design. This neural SDF representation underpins a two-layer hierarchcial safe robust control framework: a safe velocity generation layer and a safe robust controller layer. In the first layer, a second-order cone program is formulated to generate safety-guaranteed reference velocity by explicitly incorporating the under-approximation error bound. Furthermore, a circulation inequality is introduced to mitigate the local minimum issues commonly encountered in control barrier function (CBF) methods. The second layer features an integrated disturbance observer and a smooth safety filter explicitly compensating for estimation error, bolstering robustness to external disturbances. Extensive numerical simulations and Monte Carlo analysis validate the proposed framework, demonstrating significantly improved safety margins and avoidance of local minima compared to conventional CBF approaches.
title Spacecraft Safe Robust Control Using Implicit Neural Representation for Geometrically Complex Targets in Proximity Operations
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13672