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Many space missions require the execution of large-angle attitude slews during which stringent pointing constraints must be satisfied. For example, the pointing direction of a space telescope must be kept away from directions to bright objects, maintaining a prescribed safety margin. In this paper we propose an open-loop attitude control algorithm which determines a rest-to-rest maneuver between prescribed attitudes while ensuring that any of an arbitrary number of body-fixed directions of light-sensitive instruments stays clear of any of an arbitrary number of space-fixed directions. The approach is based on an application of a version of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle tailor-made for optimal control problems on Lie groups, and the pointing constraints are ensured by a judicious choice of the cost functional. The existence of up to three first integrals of the resulting system equations is established, depending on the number of light-sensitive and forbidden directions. These first integrals can be exploited in the numerical implementation of the attitude control algorithm, as is shown in the case of one light-sensitive and several forbidden directions. The results of the test cases presented confirm the applicability of the proposed algorithm.
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Attitude maneuvers avoiding forbidden directions
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Many space missions require the execution of large-angle attitude slews during which stringent pointing constraints must be satisfied. For example, the pointing direction of a space telescope must be kept away from directions to bright objects, maintaining a prescribed safety margin. In this paper we propose an open-loop attitude control algorithm which determines a rest-to-rest maneuver between prescribed attitudes while ensuring that any of an arbitrary number of body-fixed directions of light-sensitive instruments stays clear of any of an arbitrary number of space-fixed directions. The approach is based on an application of a version of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle tailor-made for optimal control problems on Lie groups, and the pointing constraints are ensured by a judicious choice of the cost functional. The existence of up to three first integrals of the resulting system equations is established, depending on the number of light-sensitive and forbidden directions. These first integrals can be exploited in the numerical implementation of the attitude control algorithm, as is shown in the case of one light-sensitive and several forbidden directions. The results of the test cases presented confirm the applicability of the proposed algorithm.
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The work described here was presented as paper ISSFD-2022-147 at the 28th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics, which took place in Beijing (China) from August 29 to September 2, 2022. Partial support for this work by the Klaus Tschira Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
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