Spacecraft Control in the Low Earth Orbit with Incomplete State Information

Student: Kalugin Kirill

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Control Systems and Data Processing in Engineering (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2019

In this paper, the problem of controlling a satellite that moves in a low circular orbit in the Earth’s atmosphere. A spacecraft is a mathematical model whose motion in a relative coordinate system obeys a system of nonlinear differential equations. The simulation takes into account the physical parameters of the spacecraft, such as area, mass, and so on. The task is to transfer the spacecraft to the target relative trajectory, as well as its maintenance. We will estimate the quality of the model by the deviation of the state vector of the system from the target state vector.

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