Control system and method for a plane change for satellite operations
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G01C-023/00
B64G-001/24
B64G-001/36
출원번호
US-0130567
(2016-04-15)
등록번호
US-9919813
(2018-03-20)
발명자
/ 주소
Healy, Liam M.
출원인 / 주소
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
대리인 / 주소
US Naval Research Laboratory
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초록▼
A spacecraft control system and method for determining the necessary delta-V and timing for impulsive maneuvers to change the plane of an orbit or the size of the orbit of a secondary spacecraft that is in an orbit around a primary spacecraft. The system and method uses an apocentral coordinate syst
A spacecraft control system and method for determining the necessary delta-V and timing for impulsive maneuvers to change the plane of an orbit or the size of the orbit of a secondary spacecraft that is in an orbit around a primary spacecraft. The system and method uses an apocentral coordinate system for the relative orbital motion and geometric relative orbital elements to determine the required impulsive velocity change and time to maneuver, for relative orbital changes in which only one of slant or colatitude of the sinilaterating node changes.
대표청구항▼
1. A computer implemented method for determining the required impulsive change in relative velocity of a secondary spacecraft at a maneuver location necessary to cause a plane change in an orbital path of the secondary spacecraft relative a primary spacecraft in a circular orbit, the plane change in
1. A computer implemented method for determining the required impulsive change in relative velocity of a secondary spacecraft at a maneuver location necessary to cause a plane change in an orbital path of the secondary spacecraft relative a primary spacecraft in a circular orbit, the plane change involving a change in either relative orbit slant or relative orbit colatitude of the sinilaterating node, the method comprising: based on a known initial relative position and initial relative velocity of the secondary with respect to the primary at an initial time, determining, with a computer processor and in the apocentral coordinate system, the maneuver location and a pre-maneuver velocity vector;adding, with a computer processor and in the apocentral coordinate system, a desired change in slant to a pre-maneuver slant to find a post-maneuver slant, or a desired change in colatitude of the sinilaterating node to a pre-maneuver colatitude of the sinilaterating node to find a post-maneuver colatitude of the sinilaterating node;determining, with a computer processor and in the apocentral coordinate system, a post-maneuver velocity vector based on the post maneuver slant or the post-maneuver colatitude of the sinilaterating node; and subsequentlysubtracting, with a computer processor and in the apocentral coordinate system, the pre-maneuver velocity vector from the post-maneuver velocity vector to determine the required impulsive velocity change of the secondary spacecraft. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said determining, adding, determining, and subtracting are accomplished using a set of geometric relative orbital elements for the relative orbit including semimajor axis, eccentricity, central anomaly, colatitude of the sinilaterating node, and argument of apocenter. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer processor is an onboard computer processor integral to the guidance and control system of the primary spacecraft or the secondary spacecraft. 4. The method according to claim 1, in combination with outputting the required impulsive velocity change to a spacecraft propulsion system. 5. The method according to claim 1, in combination with receiving spacecraft state information from at least one of navigation sensors and spacecraft communication systems. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the apocentral coordinate system is a right-hand orthogonal coordinate system defined by the ellipse of the motion of the secondary with respect to the primary in a relative orbital plane, with a primary axis being defined by a line between the primary and one of two opposite furthest points on the ellipse from the primary, a second axis being perpendicular to the first axis in the relative orbital plane, and a third axis being normal to the relative orbital plane and defined by a cross product of the primary axis and the second axis. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plane change is a slant change, and further comprising: selecting, with a computer processor, a maneuvering point on the sinilaterating node of the relative orbit of the secondary spacecraft. 8. A guidance and control device for use on a spacecraft, comprising: a space-rated guidance and control computer processor having an interface for receiving positional data from a navigation or communication system and having an interface to pass information related to a propulsion control system,the computer processor having machine executable instructions for determining a required impulsive change in relative velocity of a secondary spacecraft at a maneuver location necessary to cause a plane change in an orbital path of the secondary spacecraft relative a primary spacecraft in a circular orbit, the plane change involving a change in either relative orbit slant or relative orbit colatitude of the sinilaterating node, bybased on a known initial relative position and initial relative velocity of the secondary with respect to the primary at an initial time, determining, in the apocentral coordinate system, the maneuver location and a pre-maneuver velocity vector,adding, in the apocentral coordinate system, a desired change in slant to a pre-maneuver slant to find a post-maneuver slant, or a desired change in colatitude of the sinilaterating node to a pre-maneuver colatitude of the sinilaterating node to find a post-maneuver slant,determining, in the apocentral coordinate system, a post-maneuver velocity vector based on the post maneuver slant or the post-maneuver colatitude of the sinilaterating node, andsubtracting, in the apocentral coordinate system, the pre-maneuver velocity vector from the post-maneuver velocity vector to find the required impulsive velocity change of the secondary spacecraft.
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