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http://dx.doi.org/10.11003/JPNT.2020.9.4.357

Single Frequency GPS Relative Navigation for Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Mission of Low-Earth Orbit Cube-Satellites  

Shim, Hanjoon (Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, Seoul National University)
Kim, O-Jong (Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, Seoul National University)
Yu, Sunkyoung (Samsung Electronics)
Kee, Changdon (Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, Seoul National University)
Cho, Dong-Hyun (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, Hae-Dong (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing / v.9, no.4, 2020 , pp. 357-366 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper addressed a relative navigation method for autonomous rendezvous and docking of cube-satellites using single frequency Differential GPS (DGPS) under the intermittent communication between satellites. Since the ionospheric error of GPS measurement is variable depending on the visible satellites, a few meters error of relative navigation is occurred in the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) environment. Therefore, it is essential to remove the ionospheric error to perform relative navigation. Besides, an intermittent communication period for receiving GPS measurements of the target satellite is limited for getting information every sampling time. To solve this problem, a method combining range domain DGPS and orbit propagation is proposed in this paper. The proposed method improves the performance of DGPS by using Hatch filter and solves an intermittent communication problem by estimating the relative position and velocity using Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire Equation. Through the simulation, it is verified that the suggested algorithm provides the relative position error within RMS 0.5 m and the relative velocity error within RMS 3 cm/s. Furthermore, it has the advantage that it is suitable for real-time implementation using single-frequency GPS measurements and is computationally efficient.
Keywords
single frequency differential GPS; relative navigation; cube-satellite; orbit propagation;
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