Spacecraft-mounted robotics

P Tsiotras, M King-Smith, L Ticozzi - Annual Review of Control …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Space-mounted robotics is becoming increasingly mainstream for many space missions.
The aim of this article is threefold: first, to give a broad and quick overview of the importance …

Quantitative precision second-order temporal transformation based pose control for spacecraft proximity operations

Y **ao, Y Yang, D Ye, JQ Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper designs a novel 6-Degree-of-Freedom (6-DOF) relative motion control scheme
for spacecraft proximity operations with quantitative precision (QP), which simultaneously …

Artificial potential function based spacecraft proximity maneuver 6-DOF control under multiple pyramid-type constraints

L Wang, Y Guo, G Ma, H Zhang - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of spacecraft six degree of freedom (6-DOF) pose
tracking control with collision avoidance and field of view (FOV) pyramid-type constraints …

Pose tracking without linearand angular-velocity feedback using dual quaternions

N Filipe, A Valverde, P Tsiotras - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since vision-based sensors typically cannot directly measure the relative linear and angular
velocities between two spacecraft, it is useful to develop attitude-and position-tracking …

Run Time Assurance for Spacecraft Attitude Control Under Nondeterministic Assumptions

M Abate, M Mote, M Dor, C Klett… - … on Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a comprehensive development and testing of a run time assurance
(RTA) filter for a torque-controlled spacecraft in free rotational motion with torque actuation …

Robust hybrid global dual quaternion pose control of spacecraft-Mounted robotic systems

M King-Smith, P Tsiotras - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
We propose a nonlinear hybrid dual quaternion feedback control law for multibody
spacecraft-mounted robotic systems (SMRSs) pose control. Indeed, screw theory expressed …

Adaptive sliding mode control of a perturbed satellite in a formation antenna array

ME Nixon, YB Shtessel - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Control of a perturbed satellite formation antenna array, with dual quaternion dynamics, is
considered. The perturbations and their derivatives are assumed bounded with unknown …

Partial Lyapunov strictification: Dual-quaternion-based observer for 6-DOF tracking control

H Dong, Q Hu, MR Akella… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on the dual-quaternion description, a smooth six-degree-of-freedom observer is
proposed to estimate the incorporating linear (translational) and angular velocity, called the …

Kinematic calibration of serial robot using dual quaternions

G Li, F Zhang, Y Fu, S Wang - Industrial Robot: the international …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an error model for serial robot kinematic
calibration based on dual quaternions. Design/methodology/approach The dual quaternions …

Dual quaternion framework for modeling of spacecraft-mounted multibody robotic systems

A Valverde, P Tsiotras - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This paper lays out a framework to model the kinematics and dynamics of a rigid spacecraft-
mounted multibody robotic system. The framework is based on dual quaternion algebra …