Multiple-Spacecraft Reconfiguration Through Collision Avoidance, Bouncing, and Stalemate

Young-Rae Kim, M. Mesbahi and F. Y. Hadaegh
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M. Mesbahi: University of Washington
F. Y. Hadaegh: California Institute of Technology

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2004, vol. 122, issue 2, No 5, 323-343

Abstract: Abstract We consider constrained multiple-spacecraft reconfigurations outside a gravity well in deep space. As opposed to the single-spacecraft scenario, such reconfigurations involve collision avoidance constraints that can be embedded in a nonconvex, state-constrained optimal control problem. Due to the difficulties in solving this general class of optimal control problems, we adopt a heuristically motivated approach to multiple-spacecraft reconfigurations. Then, we proceed to prove the convergence properties of the proposed approach for reconfigurations involving an arbitrary number of spacecraft.

Keywords: Multiple-spacecraft reconfiguration; state-constrained optimal control; collision avoidance; bouncing; stalemate; heuristic algorithms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1023/B:JOTA.0000042524.57088.8b

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