Rendezvous & docking (RVD) include four phases: ground longrang phase, homing phase, approach phase, docking phase. For the optimal rendezvous, most solutions are based on the C-W function. This paper studies the optimal rendezvous solutions which based on the traditional C-W equations, and studies optimal rendezvous solutions which based on the method of nonlinear programming. A recently developed direct optimization technique is employed, which converts the optimal control problem into a nonlinear programming one.


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    Title :

    The optimal guidance law for rendezvous and docking of spacecraft


    Contributors:
    Zhu Lingpu (author) / Liu Zhenghua (author) / Wen Nuan (author)


    Publication date :

    2016-08-01


    Size :

    341430 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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