Self-Organizing Control-Loop Recovery for Predictive Networked Formation Control of Fractionated Spacecraft

• Published in: Aerospace Vol. 9; no. 10; p. 529
• Main Authors: Kempf, Florian, Scharnagl, Julian, Heil, Stefan, Schilling, Klaus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Actuators; auction based task assignment; Communication; Compensation; Control tasks; controller failure recovery; Controllers; Cooperation; Data integrity; Data loss; Failure; Failure detection; Feedback control; Forecasts and trends; formation control; fractionated spacecraft; Middleware; networked predictive control; Nodes; Optimization; Predictive control; Satellites; self-organization; Sensors; Small satellites; Software; Space ships; Space vehicles; Spacecraft; Subsystems; United Kingdom

Going beyond the current trend of cooperating multiple small satellites we arrive at fractionated satellite architectures. Here the subsystems of all satellites directly self-organize and cooperate among themselves to achieve a common mission goal. Although this leads to a further increase of the ad...