Journal
JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS
Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 638-650Publisher
AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS
DOI: 10.2514/1.G006166
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- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE1650115]
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This paper introduces an optimal trajectory planner for spacecraft attitude transfers, comparing it with a commercial solver and demonstrating its computational efficiency and unique ability to provide feasible intermediate solutions. The results strongly indicate PRONTO as a suitable real-time optimal maneuver planner for spacecraft attitude control.
This paper introduces an optimal trajectory planner for spacecraft rest-to-rest attitude transfers subject to input saturation, angular velocity, and nonconvex exclusion cone constraints. The proposed solution adapts the Projection-Operator-Based Newton's Method for Trajectory Optimization (PRONTO) to address the nonlinearity of the unit quaternion manifold. The system constraints are then handled using a modified interior point method designed to remain applicable when an intermediate solution estimate is infeasible. Through an extensive numerical study, the proposed solution is compared with a state-of-the-art commercial solver, its computational efficiency is demonstrated, and its unique ability to provide feasible intermediate solutions is highlighted. These results strongly indicate PRONTO as a suitable real-time optimal maneuver planner for spacecraft attitude control.
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