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UNSCENTED GUIDANCE FOR POINT-TO-POINT REACTION WHEEL MANEUVERS
Attitude control system failures are often mission ending even when the mission payload remains operational. In this dissertation, the concept of unscented guidance is applied to reorient a reaction wheel satellite in the absence of feedback from star trackers or an inertial measurement unit (IMU). It is shown that an open-loop maneuver, properly designed using optimal control theory, can be used to achieve terminal attitude errors that are comparable with closed-loop control in the presence of uncertainty in the satellite inertia tensor. Typically, coarse closed-loop control is used to achieve < 1 degree pointing accuracy before more accurate pointing is done using fine guidance sensors to close the loop for science acquisition. It is shown that reaction wheel maneuvers designed using unscented guidance can also achieve sub-degree pointing accuracy of the spacecraft, making control hand-off to a functioning fine pointing control mode possible. The approach presented here enables large angle attitude control to be recovered so that mission operations may be continued despite IMU or star tracker failures.DoD Space, Chantilly, VA 20151Civilian, Department of the NavyApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited
Consistent approximation of an optimal search problem
This paper focuses on the problem of optimizing
the trajectories of multiple searchers attempting to detect
a non-evading moving target whose motion is conditionally
deterministic. This problem is a parameter-distributed optimal
control problem, as it involves an integration over a space of
stochastic parameters as well as an integration over the time
domain. In this paper, we consider a wide range of discretization
schemes to approximate the integral in the parameter space
by a finite summation, which results in a standard controlconstrained
optimal control problem that can be solved using
existing techniques in optimal control theory. We prove that
when the sequence of solutions to the discretized problem has an
accumulation point, it is guaranteed to be an optimal solution
of the original search problem. We also provide a necessary
condition that accumulation points of this sequence must satisfy.The work was supported by Office of Naval Research under Grant
N0001412WX21229.The work was supported by Office of Naval Research under Grant
N0001412WX21229