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Control and Optimization for Aerospace Systems with Stochastic Disturbances, Uncertainties, and Constraints

dc.contributor.authorBerning Jr, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-04T23:26:06Z
dc.date.availableNO_RESTRICTION
dc.date.available2020-10-04T23:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/162992
dc.description.abstractThe topic of this dissertation is the control and optimization of aerospace systems under the influence of stochastic disturbances, uncertainties, and subject to chance constraints. This problem is motivated by the uncertain operating environments of many aerospace systems, and the ever-present push to extract greater performance from these systems while maintaining safety. Explicitly accounting for the stochastic disturbances and uncertainties in the constrained control design confers the ability to assign the probability of constraint satisfaction depending on the level of risk that is deemed acceptable and allows for the possibility of theoretical constraint satisfaction guarantees. Along these lines, this dissertation presents novel contributions addressing four different problems: 1) chance-constrained path planning for small unmanned aerial vehicles in urban environments, 2) chance-constrained spacecraft relative motion planning in low-Earth orbit, 3) stochastic optimization of suborbital launch operations, and 4) nonlinear model predictive control for tracking near rectilinear halo orbits and a proposed stochastic extension. For the first problem, existing dynamic and informed rapidly-expanding random trees algorithms are combined with a novel quadratic programming-based collision detection algorithm to enable computationally efficient, chance-constrained path planning. For the second problem, a previously proposed constrained relative motion approach based on chained positively invariant sets is extended in this dissertation to the case where the spacecraft dynamics are controlled using output feedback on noisy measurements and are subject to stochastic disturbances. Connectivity between nodes is determined through the use of chance-constrained admissible sets, guaranteeing that constraints are met with a specified probability. For the third problem, a novel approach to suborbital launch operations is presented. It utilizes linear covariance propagation and stochastic clustering optimization to create an effective software-only method for decreasing the probability of a dangerous landing with no physical changes to the vehicle and only minimal changes to its flight controls software. For the fourth problem, the use of suboptimal nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) coupled with low-thrust actuators is considered for station-keeping on near rectilinear halo orbits. The nonlinear optimization problems in NMPC are solved with time-distributed sequential quadratic programming techniques utilizing the FBstab algorithm. A stochastic extension for this problem is also proposed. The results are illustrated using detailed numerical simulations.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectModel Predictive Control
dc.subjectStochastic Control
dc.subjectStochastic Optimization
dc.subjectQuadratic Programming
dc.subjectSpacecraft Applications
dc.titleControl and Optimization for Aerospace Systems with Stochastic Disturbances, Uncertainties, and Constraints
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.thesisdegreenamePhDen_US
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineAerospace Engineering
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantorUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
dc.contributor.committeememberGirard, Anouck Renee
dc.contributor.committeememberKolmanovsky, Ilya Vladimir
dc.contributor.committeememberRidley, Aaron James
dc.contributor.committeememberBieniawski, Stefan
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAerospace Engineering
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelEngineering
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/162992/1/awbe_1.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0001-6388-4200
dc.identifier.name-orcidBerning, Andrew; 0000-0001-6388-4200en_US
dc.owningcollnameDissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)


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