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Robust Backstepping Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptical Orbits Using Transformed Variables

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This paper is concerned with the problem of relative control for spacecraft rendezvous with the target spacecraft on an arbitrary elliptical orbit. A simplified dynamic model describing the relative motion between the chaser spacecraft and the target spacecraft is established via using transformed variables. Based on this simplified dynamic model, the relative motion is divided into in-plane motion and out-of-plane motion. A robust backstepping control scheme is designed to solve the rendezvous problem. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Y. Wang—This work was supported by the National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program 2014AA06A503) and the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant 973-10001.

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Wang, Y., Ji, H., Li, K. (2016). Robust Backstepping Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous on Elliptical Orbits Using Transformed Variables. In: Kubota, N., Kiguchi, K., Liu, H., Obo, T. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9834. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43506-0_1

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