Onboard Mission Planning for Autonomous Avoidance of Spacecraft Subject to Various Orbital Threats: An SMT-Based Approach

• Published in: IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 4866 - 4878
• Main Authors: Chen, Xingwen, Qiu, Jianbin, Wang, Tong, Li, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2025; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Autonomous avoidance; Avoidance; Cameras; Earth; Feature extraction; Information flow; Mission planning; orbital threats; Orbits; Planning; Probes; Risk management; Space debris; Space missions; Space vehicles; spacecraft; Spacecraft recovery; temporal constraints; Threat evaluation

The onboard mission planning problem for spacecraft is investigated in this article to autonomously avoid various orbital threats. First, the features of three typical orbital threats are analyzed, and a framework for autonomous avoidance of orbital threats is proposed. Then, the mission planning mo...