Attitude Maneuver Planning of Satellite for On-orbit Service with Spherical Geometric Constraints

In this paper, attitude maneuver planning problem of service satellite during on-orbit service (OOS) mission is addressed. Physical model is abstracted and problem of attitude maneuver planning path is extracted. A new attitude maneuver planning method with spherical geometric constraints is proposed to obtain the shortest and smooth attitude maneuver planning path when obstacles appeared between OOS system and target during maneuvering process. Simulation results can validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.