Advancing spacecraft rendezvous and docking through safety reinforcement learning and ubiquitous learning principles

KP Sharma, I Kumar, PP Singh, K Anbazhagan… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
As spacecraft rendezvous and docking missions become increasingly complex, the need for
advanced solutions has surged. In recent years, the application of reinforcement learning …

Safe guidance scheme for proximity operations forced motion

G Borelli, G Gaias, C Colombo - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Autonomous spacecraft proximity operations represent a key enabler for future mission
architectures such as in-orbit servicing, active debris removal, object inspection, and in-orbit …

Safe and constrained rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking

C Petersen, RJ Caverly, S Phillips… - 2023 American Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial paper discusses the rising need for safe and constrained spacecraft
Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD). This class of problems brings with …

[PDF][PDF] Inscribing and separating an ellipsoid and a constrained zonotope: Applications in stochastic control and centering

AP Vinod, A Weiss, S Di Cairano - Proc. Conf. Dec. & Ctrl, 2024 - shadow.merl.com
Constrained zonotopes are equivalent representations for convex polytopes that have
recently enabled tractable implementations of some set-based control methods. We con …

Passively Safe Spacecraft Motion Using Reachable Sets and Orbital Element Differences

D Aguilar-Marsillach, MJ Holzinger - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
The problem of passive safety between spacecraft is studied in this paper by means of
backward reachable sets and orbital element differences. These reachable sets characterize …

Fast and Resilient Optimization-Based Control With Spacecraft Applications

P Elango - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Trajectory optimization, which forms a key component of modern guidance, navigation, and
control (GNC) systems, occupies the middle layer within a three-layer hierarchy, where the …

Projection-free computation of robust controllable sets with constrained zonotopes

AP Vinod, A Weiss, S Di Cairano - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13730, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of computing robust controllable sets for discrete-time linear systems
with additive uncertainty. We propose a tractable and scalable approach to inner-and outer …