A neural network-based controller is developed to enable a chaser spacecraft to approach and capture a disabled Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT). This task is conventionally tackled by framing it as an optimal control problem. However, the optimization of such a problem is computationally expensive and not suitable for onboard implementation. In this work, a learning-based approach is used to rapidly generate the control outputs of the controller based on a series of training samples. These training samples are generated by solving multiple optimal control problems with successive iterations. Then, Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks are designed to mimic this optimal control strategy from the generated data. Compared with a traditional controller, the neural network controller is able to generate real-time high-quality control policies by simply passing the input through the feedforward neural network.
In this paper, a genetic programming method for satellite system design is proposed to simultaneously optimize the topology and parameters of a satellite system. Firstly, the representation of satellite system design is defined according to the tree structure. The genetic programming method is designed based on that representation. Secondly, according to the tree structure of different satellite schemes, different multiscale satellite models are established, in which various physical fields couple together. Then, an evaluation system is also proposed to test the performances of different satellite schemes. Finally, the application to the design of an earth observation satellite demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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