Fast Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking with Obstacle Avoidance

No AccessEngineering NotesFast Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking with Obstacle AvoidanceCourtney Bashnick and Steve UlrichCourtney BashnickCarleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada and Steve UlrichCarleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, CanadaPublished Online:9 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G007314SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations About References 1 Nolet S., "Development of a Guidance, Navigation and Control Architecture and Validation Process Enabling Autonomous Docking to a Tumbling Satellite," Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2007. Google Scholar2 Lopez I. and Mclnnes C. 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TopicsApplied MathematicsControl SystemsControl TheoryGeneral PhysicsGuidance and Navigational AlgorithmsGuidance, Navigation, and Control SystemsMathematical OptimizationSpacecraft Guidance and Control KeywordsRendezvous and Docking AlgorithmsModel Predictive ControlConvex OptimizationReal-Time OptimizationAutonomous Guidance and ControlSpacecraft Proximity OperationsAcknowledgmentsThis research was financially supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's award and through the New Technologies for Canadian Observatories Collaborative Research and Training Experience program.PDF Received24 October 2022Accepted29 January 2023Published online9 March 2023