&lt;title&gt;SUMO: spacecraft for the universal modification of orbits&lt;/title&gt;

Bosse, Albert; Barnds, W. J.; Brown, Michael A.; Creamer, N. Glenn; Feerst, Andy; Henshaw, Carl Glen; Hope, Alan; Kelm, Bernard E.; Klein, Patricia A.; Pipitone, Frank; Plourde, Bertrand E.; Whalen, Brian P.

doi:10.1117/12.547714

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“…Several space programs have been completed or are being developed as technology demonstration of these tasks, such as JAXA's ETS-7 [7], NASA's DART program [4], DARPA's Orbital Express program [15], and SUMO program [3]. Because of the cruel space environment and the limitation of the lifetime, a spacecraft may be in failure or out of control due to some malfunctions.…”

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Relative attitude and position estimation for a tumbling spacecraft

Zhang

Yang

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Aerospace Science and Technology

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Relative attitude and position estimation for a tumbling spacecraft

Zhang

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Aerospace Science and Technology

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“…The mission was successfully accomplished in 2007 [10]. Another DARPA on-orbital servicing program called SUMO (Spacecraft for the Universal Modification of Orbits) was initiated in 2005, aiming at combining detailed stereo photogrammetric imaging with robotic manipulators to autonomously grapple space objects for servicing [11]. The program later changed its name to FREND (Front-end Robotics Enabling Near-term Demonstration) [12].…”

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A Review of Robotics Technologies for On-Orbit Services

Flores-Abad¹,

Ma²,

Pham³

2013

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Space robotics has been considered one of the most promising approaches for on-orbit services (OOS) such as docking, berthing, refueling, repairing, upgrading, transporting, rescuing, and orbit cleanup. Many enabling techniques have been developed recently and several technology demonstration missions have been completed. Several manned servicing missions were also successfully accomplished but unmanned real servicing missions have not been done yet. All of the accomplished unmanned technology demonstration missions were designed to service perfectly known and cooperative targets only. Servicing a non-cooperative satellite in orbit by a robotic system is still an untested mission facing many technical challenges. One of the largest challenges would be how to ensure the servicing spacecraft and the robot to safely and reliably dock with or capture the target satellite and stabilizing it for subsequent servicing, especially if the serviced target is unknown regarding its motion and kinematics/dynamics properties. Obviously, further research and development of the enabling technologies are needed. To facilitate such further research and development, this paper provides a literature review of the recently developed technologies related to the kinematics, dynamics, control and verification of space robotic systems for manned and unmanned onorbit servicing missions.

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“…Introduction T HE rendezvous problem of two spacecraft orbiting the Earth has been addressed in numerous publications. Rendezvous technology has also evolved with small-spacecraft development, such as the Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART), § the Experimental Satellite Systems-10 (XSS-10) and XSS-11 ¶ [1], the Spacecraft for the Universal Modification of Orbits (SUMO) [2], and the Orbital Express (OE). In particular, the XSS-11 exhibited the ability for a small satellite to autonomously plan and rendezvous with a passive or cooperative resident space object (RSO) in low Earth orbit [3].…”

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Optimal Rendezvous Trajectories of a Controlled Spacecraft and a Tumbling Object

Boyarko

Yakimenko

Romano

2011

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

124

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This paper formulates and solves the problem of minimum-time and minimum-energy optimal trajectories of rendezvous of a powered chaser and a passive tumbling target, in a circular orbit. Both translational and rotational dynamics are considered. In particular, ending conditions are imposed of matching the positions and velocities of two points of interest onboard the vehicles. A collision-avoidance condition is imposed as well. The optimal control problems are analytically formulated through the use of the Pontryagin minimum principle. The problems are then solved numerically, by using a direct collocation method based on the Gauss pseudospectral approach. Finally, the obtained solutions are verified through the minimum principle, solved by a shooting method. The simulation results show that the pseudospectral solver provides solutions very close to the optimal ones, except in the case of presence of singular arcs when it may not provide a feasible solution. The computational time needed by the pseudospectral solver is a small fraction of the one needed by the indirect approach, but it is still considerably too large to allow for its use in real-time onboard guidance.

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<title>SUMO: spacecraft for the universal modification of orbits</title>

Cited by 55 publications

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Relative attitude and position estimation for a tumbling spacecraft

Relative attitude and position estimation for a tumbling spacecraft

A Review of Robotics Technologies for On-Orbit Services

Optimal Rendezvous Trajectories of a Controlled Spacecraft and a Tumbling Object

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