TY - GEN
T1 - Lunar formation control using the differential solar radiation pressure
AU - Gurfil, Pini
AU - Nie, Tao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Using differential solar radiation pressure (DSRP) for formation keeping is not new. However, there is no design of a DSRP-based controller for lunar satellite formation keeping, where the C22 sectorial harmonic and third-body effects are large, other than the J2zonal harmonic. This paper develops a DSRP-based controller utilizing mean orbital elements feedback for controlling satellites in a bounded region based on the astrodynamical analysis. It is shown that the most effective way to mitigates the drifts for using SRP is to adjust the semi-major axis. Numerical simulation results illustrate the new DSRP-based controller has the ability to arrest the relative distance drifts for serval years.
AB - Using differential solar radiation pressure (DSRP) for formation keeping is not new. However, there is no design of a DSRP-based controller for lunar satellite formation keeping, where the C22 sectorial harmonic and third-body effects are large, other than the J2zonal harmonic. This paper develops a DSRP-based controller utilizing mean orbital elements feedback for controlling satellites in a bounded region based on the astrodynamical analysis. It is shown that the most effective way to mitigates the drifts for using SRP is to adjust the semi-major axis. Numerical simulation results illustrate the new DSRP-based controller has the ability to arrest the relative distance drifts for serval years.
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U2 - 10.1109/MED.2019.8798528
DO - 10.1109/MED.2019.8798528
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071660320
T3 - 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2019 - Proceedings
SP - 221
EP - 226
BT - 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2019 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2019
Y2 - 1 July 2019 through 4 July 2019
ER -