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Bosong Wei1,2, Cong Li1,2, Zhaohui Dang1,2
1School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 Youyi West Road, Xi'an 710072, China.
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The issue of in-orbit optimal safe surrounding control for service satellite (SSat) formation against a huge unknown target satellite (TSat) with specific structures is solved by using relative measurements only, and an optimal cooperative safe surrounding (OCSS) hybrid controller achieving both target tracking (TT) and configuration tracking (CT) is proposed corresponding to the two equal sub-objectives. Facing the challenges caused by incomplete information of the TSat, by using relative measurements only, the initial-condition-free boundaries are constructed by an arctan-based state transformation to directly constrain the target tracking error to perform prescribed transient and steady-state behaviors. Based on the shared TT control law, optimal collision-free CT controllers for all SSats are further solved via a nonzero-sum differential game, where the collision threat from all SSats and target structures are modeled by a novel circumscribed-sphere model. Finally, the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed OCSS control technique is verified by simulation results.
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