Guidance and Control of a Free-flying Robot at Rendezvous with Noncooperative Space Vehicle

Methods for guidance and control of a space robot-manipulator at its approach to a noncooperative space vehicle on a sun-synchronous orbit are developed in conditions of uncertainty and incompleteness of measurements. We discuss an operational strategy to estimate the resources of the robot's attitude and orbit control system.

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