%0 Book Section
%A Saponara, M.
%A Barrena, V.
%A Bemporad, Alberto
%A Hartley, E. N.
%A Maciejowski, Jan M.
%A Richards, A.
%A Tramutola, A.
%A Trodden, P.
%B Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, Control, Fault Detection, and Avionics
%D 2013
%F eprints:2206
%I EDP Sciences
%P 137-158
%T Model predictive control application to spacecraft rendezvous in mars sample return scenario
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2206/
%V 6
%X Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimization-based control strategy that is considered extremely attractive in the autonomous space rendezvous scenarios. The Online Recon¦guration Control System and Avionics Architecture (ORCSAT) study addresses its applicability in Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, including the implementation of the developed solution in a space representative avionic architecture system. With respect to a classical control solution High-integrity Autonomous RendezVous and Docking control system (HARVD), MPC allows a signi¦cant performance improvement both in trajectory and in propellant save. Furthermore, thanks to the online optimization, it allows to identify improvements in other areas (i. e., at mission de¦nition level) that could not be known a priori