Autonomous orbit determination and navigation for formations of CubeSats beyond LEO

Vasile, Massimiliano and Torre, Francesco and Serra, Romain and Grey, Stuart (2017) Autonomous orbit determination and navigation for formations of CubeSats beyond LEO. In: 9th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying, 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-21, University of Colorado Boulder.

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    Abstract

    This paper investigates the use of the Time Of Arrival (TOA) and Doppler shift to allow a small formation of CubeSats to navigate beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). The idea is to use a one way communication, from one or more ground station to two or more CubeSats, to reconstruct an estimation of the position and velocity of the formation with respect to Earth. The paper considers the use of the difference in TOA and Doppler measurements to mitigate the error introduced by the onboard clock. These measurements are combined with inter-satellite distance and velocity measurements based on a two-way communication between pairs of spacecraft. The paper will provide an estimation of the error in position and velocity that can be obtained by a combination of these measurements. The reference case for these analyses will be a mission to the Moon.

    Author(s):Vasile, Massimiliano ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-6465, Torre, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-1405, Serra, Romain and Grey, Stuart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9274-0601
    Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:63264
    Keywords:autonomous navigation, formation flying, CubeSats, time of arrival (TOA), Doppler shift, low Earth orbit, LEO, Moon, space missions, astronautics, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics, Aerospace Engineering
    Subjects:Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Strategic Research Themes > Ocean, Air and Space
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:13 Feb 2018 14:29
    Last modified:08 Jan 2020 20:31
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63264
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