Affiliation:
1. College of System Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
2. College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Abstract
To prevent the proliferation of space debris and stabilize the space environment, active debris removal (ADR) has increasingly gained public concern. Considering the complexity of space operations and the viability of ADR missions, it would be necessary to schedule the ADR process in order to remove as much debris as possible. This paper presents an active debris removal mission planning problem, devoted to generate an optimal debris removal plan to guide the mission process. According to the problem characteristics, a two-layer time-dependent traveling salesman problem(TSP) mathematical model is established, involving the debris removal sequence planning and the transfer trajectory planning. Subsequently, two main novel methods based on machine learning are proposed for the ADR mission planning problem, including a deep neural networks(DNN)-based estimation method for approximating the optimal velocity increments of perturbed multiple-impulse rendezvous and an reinforcement learning(RL)-based method for optimizing the sequence of debris removal and rendezvous time. Experimental results of different simulation scenarios have verified the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, indicating the good performance for solving the active debris removal mission planning problem.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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