Artificial Potential Function Safety and Obstacle Avoidance Guidance for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking with Noncooperative Target

Jianghui Liu and Haiyang Li

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-17

Abstract:

The problem of artificial potential function (APF) safety and obstacle avoidance guidance for autonomous rendezvous and docking of chaser spacecraft with noncooperative spacecraft is studied. The relative motion equation of the chaser and the target is established based on the line-of-sight coordinate system, the reference state is designed, and the corresponding state error is deduced. The attitude motion equation of the noncooperative target spacecraft in space is established. The safety and obstacle avoidance guidance problem of autonomous rendezvous and docking with noncooperative target is transformed into a path planning problem in a dynamic environment. The attractive potential function is designed according to the state error. In order to ensure that the chaser can safely approach the noncooperative target spacecraft, a safe corridor with ellipse cissoid is designed in the final approaching stage of autonomous rendezvous and docking. The obstacle is assumed to be a sphere with a certain radius to avoid its influence in the approach, and the obstacle potential function is designed based on the Gaussian function method. The total potential function of the system is designed according to the attractive potential function, the safe potential function, and the obstacle potential function. The total potential function of the system is modified to ensure that the reference state is the minimum of the total potential function of the system. The stability of the system is proven according to the Lyapunov stability principle, and the conditions for satisfying the monotonic decrease in the total potential function of the system are deduced. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by three sets of numerical simulations.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/3451864

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