Fuel-Optimal Formation Reconfiguration by Means of Unidirectional Low-Thrust Propulsion System

Small Satellites; Model Predictive Control; Trajectory Optimization; Convex Optimization; Sequential Convex Programming; Autonomous Guidance and Control; Formation Flying; Low Thrust Propulsion

Research center :

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > ARG - Automation & Robotics

Disciplines :

Aerospace & aeronautics engineering

Author, co-author :

MAHFOUZ, Ahmed ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Automation

Gaias, Gabriella ; Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy

Vedova, FD; LuxSpace, 6832 Betzdorf, Luxembourg

VOOS, Holger ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Automation

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Fuel-Optimal Formation Reconfiguration by Means of Unidirectional Low-Thrust Propulsion System

Publication date :

2024

Journal title :

Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

ISSN :

0731-5090

eISSN :

1533-3884

Publisher :

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Pages :

1-10

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/1.G008214

FnR Project :

FNR14302465 - Development Tool For Autonomous Constellation And Formation Control Of Microsatellites, 2019 (01/09/2020-31/08/2023) - Holger Voos

Name of the research project :

R-AGR-3763 - BRIDGES/19/MS/14302465/AuFoSat/LuxSpace - VOOS Holger

Funders :

Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg

Funding number :

BRIDGES/19/MS/1430 2465

Funding text :

This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, grant reference BRIDGES/19/MS/1430 2465. For the purpose of open access, and in fulfilment of the obligations arising from the grant agreement, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

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