Robust, Resilient, and Energy-Efficient Satellite Formation Control

Sean Phillips, Christopher Petersen and Rafael Fierro ()
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Sean Phillips: Air Force Research Laboratory
Christopher Petersen: Air Force Research Laboratory
Rafael Fierro: University of New Mexico

A chapter in Intelligent Control and Smart Energy Management, 2022, pp 223-251 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Due to the low-cost entry to space in recent years, the risk for on-board distributed collaborative autonomous formation control development has dramatically decreased. It is now feasible to have a distributed network of satellites autonomously coordinating their actions, which shifts the burden of space missions from a single monolithic operational structure into a distributed network of satellites. In this chapter, we consider the case of multiple satellites converging to a planar circular formation around a target satellite. The satellites are able to communicate over a connected graph which contains potentially noisy and disturbed links, demonstrating concepts of robustness and resilience. We illustrate these results in the case of a ten-satellite formation reaching an energy and fuel-efficient orbit about a desired target point and prove that such methods are robust.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84474-5_8

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