Robust Model Predictive Control with a Safety Mode: Applied to Small-Body Proximity Operations
| Title | Robust Model Predictive Control with a Safety Mode: Applied to Small-Body Proximity Operations |
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| Authors | John Carson, Behcet Acikmese, Richard Murray, and Douglas MacMynowski |
| Source | AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Co-located Conferences, 2008 |
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1 Citation See all › 1 ReferenceAccess full-text Robust Model Predictive Control with a Safety Mode: Applied to Small-Body Proximity Operations Conference Paper · August 2008 with 5 Reads DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-7243 Conference: AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit 1st John M Carson 14.22 · NASA 2nd Behçet Açıkmeşe 26.27 · University of Washington Seattle 3rd Richard M. Murray 40.05 · California Institute of Technology 4th Douglas Macmartin 32.87 · California Institute of Technology Abstract Safe and robust G&C (Guidance and Control) algorithms for onboard implementation are developed by augmenting a model predictive control technique with a safety mode. The application example herein is spacecraft small-body proximity operations where model and constraint uncertainty warrant G&C algorithms with a degree of autonomous, onboard decision capability. The algorithm enforces state and control constraints and merges two operational modes: (I) standard mode guides the spacecraft to the proximity of a target state in a robust and resolvable model-predictive manner; (II) safety mode, if activated, maintains the spacecraft near a safety reference for all time. The algorithm utilizes separate feedforward and feedback components. In standard mode, the feedforward guidance solutions come from a way-point generation algorithm that uses a discrete linear-time-varying dynamics model. This approach provides a convex formulation of the problem (solvable onboard as a second-order cone program) that includes control and state constraints; the safety-mode availability adds a constraint in this standard-mode formulation as well. The feedback guarantees standard-mode resolvability to update the guidance profile in a robust, model-predictive manner. In safety mode, an offline-designed feedforward policy with the added feedback maintains the spacecraft in a hovering state in the proximity of its position at safety-mode activation time; this provides robustness to unexpected state-constraint changes such as unexpected ground proximity during landing operations. A simulation demonstrating both the standard and safety modes is provided for a spacecraft autonomous-descent scenario toward a small asteroid with an uncertain gravity model and errors in the surface altitude constraint. |
| Type | Conference paper |
| URL | http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2008-7243 |
| Tag | camm08-aiaa |
| ID | 2008 |
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