Simultaneous Estimation of Attitude Motion and Inertia Properties for Debris Removal

What is it about?

Active debris removal represents space robotics and belongs to the proximity capability to the target to be deorbited. A key is in finding a safe approach to the target along a frozen path in inertial frame. The appropriate path is the angular momentum vector. However, identifying the vector has not been solved for decades despite a number of studies poured, sine it requires the estimation of the inertia tensor at the same time. Here, is given an innovative scheme that is completely different from filters. It does not require a priori information and does not have to request prescribed target devices onboard the satellites at launch.

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