Relative angles-only navigation for satellite relative motion

Abstract

In this thesis, relative angles-only navigation for satellite relative motion is studied. Since angles-only measurement has no range information, appropriate transfer trajectory of the chaser satellite should be designed taking into the observability. For the observability criteria, the Fisher information matrix is used. In addition, the fuel consumption is also considered for the trajectory design. By using the criteria, the trajectory is designed based on the basic transfer trajectories. For verification, numerical simulations are presented using the Extended kalman filter.