Spacecraft Formation Flying and Control Capstone Project

This is the 3rd and final course of the spacecraft relative motion course sequence. This course presents a capstone design challenge where you get to develop, simulate and study how to approach a tumbling debris object. The servicer starts from far away and carefully does a series of maneuver to get closer and closer in a safe manner. As the debris object is tumbling, the servicer will have to account for relative attitude motion as well. The final approach is in a debris body-fixed manner illustrating a case of controlling non-Keplerian motion. After this course, you will be able to... Design safe approach trajectories Implement relative motion feedback control solutions Model the relative motion and relative attitude in the LVLH frame Implement non-Keplerian reference motion Please note: this is an advanced course, best suited for working engineers or students with college-level knowledge in mathematics and physics. The material covered is taking from the book "Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems" available at https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.105210

• Develop long range approach trajectory for a rendezvous maneuver
• Simulated relative motion control solutions in LVLH frame
• Implement non-Keplerian relative motion reference trajectories to fly in a body-fixed manner relative to the debris object

• Prior hands-on experience with the core concepts covered in this course
• Comfort applying the main tools or methods independently