TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yang, Xiaoyu
AU  - Chen, Qiang
AU  - He, Xiongxiong
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/17
TI  - A Safety-Critical Control Scheme for Spacecraft Relative Motion Tracking Based on the Fully Actuated System Approach and Offline QP Solutions
JO  - ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control
T2  - ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control
JF  - ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 54
EP  - 63
DO  - 10.62762/TSCC.2025.553018
UR  - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/TSCC.2025.553018
KW  - control barrier function
KW  - fully actuated system approach
KW  - safety-critical control
KW  - spacecraft relative motion tracking
AB  - A safety-critical control scheme based on fully actuated system approach (FASA) framework is developed for spacecraft relative motion tracking under external disturbances and multiple forbidden regions. For tracking performance, the nominal controller is designed by using the FASA framework, such that the controller design process can be simplified. For safety constraints, a disturbance-tolerant control barrier function incorporating low-pass filtered disturbance compensation is introduced to mitigate interference effects. Furthermore, a sequential correction strategy is developed to resolve safety constraints through offline-computed quadratic program (QP) solutions, which can eliminate dependence on real-time optimization of the QP solver. Theoretical analysis confirms that the proposed control scheme simultaneously guarantees collision avoidance and the spacecraft relative motion tracking. Numerical simulations further validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, demonstrating its potential for onboard implementation in resource-constrained spacecraft control systems.
SN  - 3068-9287
PB  - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge
LA  - English
ER  - 

@article{Yang2026A,
  author = {Xiaoyu Yang and Qiang Chen and Xiongxiong He},
  title = {A Safety-Critical Control Scheme for Spacecraft Relative Motion Tracking Based on the Fully Actuated System Approach and Offline QP Solutions},
  journal = {ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {3},
  number = {1},
  pages = {54-63},
  doi = {10.62762/TSCC.2025.553018},
  url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/TSCC.2025.553018},
  abstract = {A safety-critical control scheme based on fully actuated system approach (FASA) framework is developed for spacecraft relative motion tracking under external disturbances and multiple forbidden regions. For tracking performance, the nominal controller is designed by using the FASA framework, such that the controller design process can be simplified. For safety constraints, a disturbance-tolerant control barrier function incorporating low-pass filtered disturbance compensation is introduced to mitigate interference effects. Furthermore, a sequential correction strategy is developed to resolve safety constraints through offline-computed quadratic program (QP) solutions, which can eliminate dependence on real-time optimization of the QP solver. Theoretical analysis confirms that the proposed control scheme simultaneously guarantees collision avoidance and the spacecraft relative motion tracking. Numerical simulations further validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, demonstrating its potential for onboard implementation in resource-constrained spacecraft control systems.},
  keywords = {control barrier function, fully actuated system approach, safety-critical control, spacecraft relative motion tracking},
  issn = {3068-9287},
  publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}