Название: Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications
Автор: Vincenzo Pesce1, Andrea Colagrossi, Stefano Silvestrini
Издательство: Elsevier
Год: 2023
Страниц: 1074
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 13.5 MB

Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications provides a comprehensive foundation of theory and applications of spacecraft GNC, from fundamentals to advanced concepts, including modern AI-based architectures with focus on hardware and software practical applications. Divided into four parts, this book begins with an introduction to spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC), before discussing the basic tools for GNC applications. These include an overview of the main reference systems and planetary models, a description of the space environment, an introduction to orbital and attitude dynamics, and a survey on spacecraft sensors and actuators, with details of their modeling principles. Part 2 covers guidance, navigation, and control, including both on-board and ground-based methods. It also discusses classical and novel control techniques, failure detection isolation and recovery (FDIR) methodologies, GNC verification, validation, and on-board implementation. The final part 3 discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and modern applications featuring different applicative scenarios, with particular attention on Artificial Intelligence and the possible benefits when applied to spacecraft GNC. In this part, GNC for small satellites and CubeSats is also discussed.

This book does not want to provide an in-depth theoretical description of GNC foundations, but it offers a unique perspective on design and verification processes, practical applications, and novel, cutting-edge, techniques. A unique text to understand the fundamentals of modern spacecraft GNC design, from theory to applications, which can guide both students, young professionals, and experts, is currently missing. The practical and applicative focus of the book makes is appealing to junior and graduate aerospace engineers. Moreover, the discussion on modern and advance techniques should make it a reference updated handbook. In fact, spacecraft system engineers and attitude and orbit control system (AOCS)/GNC specialists may want to use it to be updated on the latest promising advancements.

Modern Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control: From System Modeling to AI and Innovative Applications is a valuable resource for aerospace engineers, GNC/AOCS engineers, avionic developers, and AIV/AIT technicians.

Provides an overview of classical and modern GNC techniques, covering practical system modeling aspects and applicative cases
Presents the most important Artificial Intelligence algorithms applied to present and future spacecraft GNC
Describes classical and advanced techniques for GNC hardware and software verification and validation and GNC failure detection isolation and recovery (FDIR)