Saturated explicit reference governor for spacecraft constrained attitude reorientation control

B Chi, Q Hu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a saturated explicit reference governor (ERG) control scheme is proposed to
achieve attitude reorientation maneuver in the presence of pointing constraints and input …

Spacecraft rendezvous and docking using the explicit reference governor approach

Q Hu, B Chi - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking problem in the
presence of space obstacle, path constraints, and thrust limitation constraint. By introducing …

[HTML][HTML] Safe Motion Planning and Control for Mobile Robots: A Survey

S Hwang, I Jang, D Kim, HJ Kim - International Journal of Control …, 2024 - Springer
Control engineering has made significant progress in addressing various challenges for real-
world applications. For the next stage of robotics automation, it is necessary to guarantee …

Autonomous spacecraft attitude reorientation using robust sampled-data control barrier functions

J Breeden, D Panagou - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a provably safe method for constrained reorientation of a spacecraft in
the presence of input constraints, bounded disturbances, and fixed frequency zero-order …

Explicit reference governor based spacecraft attitude reorientation control with constraints and disturbances

Q Dang, K Liu, J Wei - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the attitude reorientation problem under the pointing-constraint zone,
angular velocity limits, and actuator constraints. The ERG-based control scheme is designed …

Experimental validation of constrained spacecraft attitude planning via invariant sets

C Danielson, J Kloeppel, C Petersen - Journal of Guidance, Control …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper experimentally validates the invariant-set motion planner (ISMP) for the
spacecraft attitude motion planning problem. Three novel results are presented that enable …

Efficient trajectory optimization for constrained spacecraft attitude maneuvers

TL Dearing, J Hauser, X Chen, MM Nicotra… - Journal of Guidance …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper introduces an optimal trajectory planner for spacecraft rest-to-rest attitude
transfers subject to input saturation, angular velocity, and nonconvex exclusion cone …

Explicit reference governor on SO (3) for torque and pointing constraint management

S Nakano, TW Nguyen, E Garone, T Ibuki, M Sampei - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the constrained attitude control of a rigid body. We propose an
Explicit Reference Governor (ERG) specifically designed to handle constraints on SO (3) …

Constrained attitude control of uncertain spacecraft with appointed-time control performance

X Lu, Y Jia, Y Fu, F Matsuno - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the appointed-time attitude tracking control of the spacecraft on the
special orthogonal group, with the attitude forbidden zone, the parameter uncertainties, and …

Robust action governor for uncertain piecewise affine systems with non-convex constraints and safe reinforcement learning

Y Li, N Li, HE Tseng, A Girard, D Filev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The action governor is an add-on scheme to a nominal control loop that monitors and
adjusts the control actions to enforce safety specifications expressed as pointwise-in-time …