Spacecraft Formation Flying and Control Capstone Project

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Course Overview

What You'll Learn

  • This is the 3rd and final course of the spacecraft relative motion course sequence.
  • This course presents a capstone design challenge where you get to develop, simulate and study how to approach a tumbling debris object.
  • The servicer starts from far away and carefully does a series of maneuver to get closer and closer in a safe manner.

This is the 3rd and final course of the spacecraft relative motion course sequence. This course presents a capstone design challenge where you get to develop, simulate and study how to approach a tumbling debris object. The servicer starts from far away and carefully does a series of maneuver to get closer and closer in a safe manner. As the debris object is tumbling, the servicer will have to account for relative attitude motion as well. The final approach is in a debris body-fixed manner illustrating a case of controlling non-Keplerian motion. After this course, you will be able to... * Design safe approach trajectories * Implement relative motion feedback control solutions * Model the relative motion and relative attitude in the LVLH frame * Implement non-Keplerian reference motion Please note: this is an advanced course, best suited for working engineers or students with college-level knowledge in mathematics and physics. The material covered is taking from the book "Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems" available at https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.105210.

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