In the context of Solar System exploration, autonomous planetary surface missions represent, nowadays, an important step in scientific research. Nevertheless, the design of landing Guidance, Navigation and Control sub-systems is one of the most challenging and complex tasks. Indeed, during the propelled landing phase, the system must be controlled in closed-loop, ensuring the stability of the lander motion with a certain level of robustness. This paper proposes a novel procedure for the verification of the lander nominal and robust stability. The first step is to perform a model simplification, in order to reduce the involved degrees of freedom and allow a decoupled analysis of the rotational and translational dynamics. Then, the classical stability theorems are applied, taking also into account the uncertainties due to actuators and sensors. Next, a robustness stability verification is performed by means of μ-Analysis. Finally, a Monte Carlo campaign is carried out, using an End-to-End simulator in order to verify, in the time domain, the reliability of the analytical stability analysis. The procedure is applied to a case study representing a descent module during the controlled landing phase on the Mars surface.
GNC Robustness Stability Verification for an Autonomous Lander / Pagone, Michele; Novara, Carlo; Martella, Paolo; Nocerino, Claudio. - In: AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1270-9638. - 100:(2020), p. 105831. [10.1016/j.ast.2020.105831]
GNC Robustness Stability Verification for an Autonomous Lander
Pagone, Michele;Novara, Carlo;
2020
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In the context of Solar System exploration, autonomous planetary surface missions represent, nowadays, an important step in scientific research. Nevertheless, the design of landing Guidance, Navigation and Control sub-systems is one of the most challenging and complex tasks. Indeed, during the propelled landing phase, the system must be controlled in closed-loop, ensuring the stability of the lander motion with a certain level of robustness. This paper proposes a novel procedure for the verification of the lander nominal and robust stability. The first step is to perform a model simplification, in order to reduce the involved degrees of freedom and allow a decoupled analysis of the rotational and translational dynamics. Then, the classical stability theorems are applied, taking also into account the uncertainties due to actuators and sensors. Next, a robustness stability verification is performed by means of μ-Analysis. Finally, a Monte Carlo campaign is carried out, using an End-to-End simulator in order to verify, in the time domain, the reliability of the analytical stability analysis. The procedure is applied to a case study representing a descent module during the controlled landing phase on the Mars surface.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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