Maintenance of Libration Point Orbit in Elliptic Sun-Mercury Model

作者:Peng, Hao*; Liao, Yuxin; Bai, Xiaoli; Xu, Shijie
来源:IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2018, 54(1): 144-158.
DOI:10.1109/TAES.2017.2739938

摘要

The maintenance of the nominal multirevolution elliptic halo orbit, whose special features can benefit mercurial explorations, is first investigated through Monte-Carlo simulations in the elliptic Sun-Mercury model, and then validated in the high-fidelity ephemeris model. The receding horizon control strategy solved by the indirect Radau pseu-dospectral method demonstrates that the orbit can be maintained robustly with respect to very large initial deviations. Moreover, the result proves that the elliptic Sun-Mercury model is an accurate approximation.