Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control
From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications
- 1st Edition - November 13, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Vincenzo Pesce, Andrea Colagrossi, Stefano Silvestrini
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 9 1 6 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 9 1 7 - 4
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Request a sales quoteModern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications provides a comprehensive foundation of theory and applications of spacecraft GNC, from fundamentals to advanced concepts, including modern AI-based architectures with focus on hardware and software practical applications. Divided into four parts, this book begins with an introduction to spacecraft GNC, before discussing the basic tools for GNC applications. These include an overview of the main reference systems and planetary models, a description of the space environment, an introduction to orbital and attitude dynamics, and a survey on spacecraft sensors and actuators, with details of their modeling principles. Part 2 covers guidance, navigation, and control, including both on-board and ground-based methods. It also discusses classical and novel control techniques, failure detection isolation and recovery (FDIR) methodologies, GNC verification, validation, and on-board implementation. The final part 3 discusses AI and modern applications featuring different applicative scenarios, with particular attention on artificial intelligence and the possible benefits when applied to spacecraft GNC. In this part, GNC for small satellites and CubeSats is also discussed.
Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications
is a valuable resource for aerospace engineers, GNC/AOCS engineers, avionic developers, and AIV/AIT technicians.- Provides an overview of classical and modern GNC techniques, covering practical system modeling aspects and applicative cases
- Presents the most important artificial intelligence algorithms applied to present and future spacecraft GNC
- Describes classical and advanced techniques for GNC hardware and software verification and validation and GNC failure detection isolation and recovery (FDIR)
Aerospace engineers, GNC/AOCS engineers, avionic developers, AIV/AIT technicians
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Biography
- Part 0. Introduction
- Chapter one. Introduction
- Modern spacecraft GNC: what, why, how, for whom?
- A brief historical review of classical spacecraft GNC
- GNC terminology
- GNC architecture: from requirements to preliminary design
- Notation rules
- Part 1. Fundamental GNC tools
- Chapter Two. Reference systems and planetary models
- Earth and planetary models
- Coordinate reference systems
- Coordinate transformations
- Time
- What is relevant for GNC?
- Chapter Three. The space environment
- Perturbation sources
- External perturbations
- External perturbations modeling guidelines
- Internal perturbations
- Internal perturbations modeling guidelines
- What is relevant for GNC?
- Chapter Four. Orbital dynamics
- Two-body problem
- Three-body problem
- Irregular solar system bodies
- Relative orbital dynamics
- Chapter Five. Attitude dynamics
- Attitude kinematics
- Attitude dynamics
- Three-body problem attitude dynamics
- Relative attitude dynamics
- Multibody spacecraft dynamics
- Chapter Six. Sensors
- Sensor modeling for GNC
- Sensor faults
- Orbit sensors
- Attitude sensors
- Inertial sensors
- Electro-optical sensors
- Altimeters
- Chapter Seven. Actuators
- Actuator modeling for GNC
- Thrusters
- Reaction wheels
- Control moment gyros
- Magnetorquers
- Part 2. Spacecraft GNC
- Chapter Eight. Guidance
- What is guidance?
- On-board versus ground-based guidance
- Guidance applications
- Guidance implementation best practices
- Chapter Nine. Navigation
- What is navigation?
- On-board versus ground-based navigation
- Sequential filters
- Batch estimation
- Absolute orbit navigation
- Absolute attitude navigation
- Relative navigation
- Image processing techniques
- Navigation budgets
- Navigation implementation best practices
- Chapter Ten. Control
- What is control?
- Control design
- Review of control methods
- Control budgets
- Control implementation best practices
- Chapter Eleven. FDIR development approaches in space systems
- FDIR in space missions, terms, and definitions
- Current FDIR system development process and industrial practices
- FDIR system hierarchical architecture and operational concepts
- FDIR system implementation in European Space missions
- FDIR system verification and validation approach
- FDIR concept and functional architecture in GNC applications: a short overview
- Chapter Twelve. GNC verification and validation
- Why it is important?
- Statistical methods
- MIL test
- SIL/PIL test
- HIL test
- In-orbit test
- Chapter Thirteen. On-board implementation
- Spacecraft avionics
- On-board processing avionics
- On-board implementation alternatives
- On-board implementation and verification
- Part 3. AI and modern applications
- Chapter Fourteen. Applicative GNC cases and examples
- AOCS design
- Orbital control system
- Attitude control system
- Relative GNC
- On-board sensor processing
- Irregular solar system bodies fly around
- GNC for planetary landing
- Chapter Fifteen. Modern Spacecraft GNC
- AI in space—Introduction
- Artificial intelligence and navigation
- Validation of AI-based systems
- Reinforcement learning
- AI use cases
- AI on-board processors
- Innovative techniques for highly autonomous FDIR in GNC applications
- Small satellites/CubeSats
- Chapter Sixteen. Mathematical and geometrical rules
- Matrix algebra
- Vector identities
- Quaternion algebra
- Basics of statistics
- ECI-ECEF transformation
- Chapter Seventeen. Dynamical systems theory
- State-space models
- Discrete-time systems
- Transfer functions
- Chapter Eighteen. Autocoding best practices
- List of main architectural and implementation rules
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 13, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 1064
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323909167
- eBook ISBN: 9780323909174
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Vincenzo Pesce
Dr. Vincenzo Pesce is a GNC Engineer at Airbus D&S Advanced Studies Department in Toulouse, France. His current research interests include autonomous GNC for proximity operations, rendezvous and landing, vision-based navigation, and GNC innovative methods.
Affiliations and expertise
GNC Engineer, Airbus D&S Advanced Studies Department, Toulouse, France.AC
Andrea Colagrossi
Dr. Andrea Colagrossi is an assistant professor of Flight Mechanics at the Aerospace Science and Technology Department of Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests are spacecraft GNC and system engineering for advanced small satellite applications, with a focus on effective GNC implementation with limited hardware resources, innovative GNC techniques, and autonomous failure and contingency modes management.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant professor, Aerospace Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.SS
Stefano Silvestrini
Dr. Stefano Silvestrini is a post-doctoral researcher at the Aerospace Science and Technology Department of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include the development of Artificial Intelligence algorithms for autonomous GNC in distributed space systems and proximity operations, particularly tailored for embedded applications in small platforms.
Affiliations and expertise
Post-doctoral researcher, Aerospace Science and Technology Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.Read Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control on ScienceDirect