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January 23, 2023
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Relative Dynamics and Modern Control Strategies for Rendezvous in Libration Point Orbits

Publicated to: Aerospace. 9 (12): 798- - 2022-12-01 9(12), DOI: 10.3390/aerospace9120798

Authors: del Valle, SC; Urrutxua, H; Solano-López, P; Gutierrez-Ramon, R; Sugihara, AK

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Grad Univ Adv Studies, SOKENDAI, ISAS JAXA, Chuo Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2525210, Japan - Author
Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy JAXA, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci ISAS, Chuo Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2525210, Japan - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Aerosp Syst & Transport Res Grp GISAT ASTRG, Camino Molino 5, Madrid 28942, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Deep space missions are recently gaining increasing interest from space agencies and industry, their maximum exponent being the establishment of a permanent station in cis-lunar orbit within this decade. To that end, autonomous rendezvous and docking in multi-body dynamical environments have been defined as crucial technologies to expand and maintain human space activities beyond near Earth orbit. Based on analytical and numerical formulations of the relative dynamics in the Circular Restricted Three Body Problem (CR3BP), a family of optimal, linear and nonlinear, continuous and impulsive, guidance and control techniques are developed for the design of end-to-end rendezvous trajectories between co-orbiting spacecraft in this multi-body dynamical environment. To this end, several modern control techniques are effectively designed and adapted to this problem, with particular emphasis on the design of low cost rendezvous manoeuvres. Finally, the designed hybrid rendezvous strategies, combining both discrete and continuous control techniques, are effectively tested and validated under several start-to-end deep space testbench mission scenarios, where their performance is compared and quantitatively assessed with a set of performance indices.

Keywords

Cr3bpEquationsFlightHalo orbitsLibration point orbitsLissajous trajectoriesMotionNonlinear controlOptimal controlPredictive controlRelative dynamicsRendezvousRobust controlSpaceSystemsVicinity

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Aerospace due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 8/34, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Aerospace.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-15:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 6

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-15:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 15 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Japan.

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author () .

    the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been .

    Awards linked to the item

    This research was funded by the Spanish State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund through the research grant PID2020-112576GB-C22 (AEI/ERDF, UE).