Reported by: Zhao Wei
Translated by: Li Yunlei
Edited by: Garrick Jones
（written by Zhao Wei）On October 18, Duan Guangren, the leader of National Natural Science Funds Commission Innovation Research Group of Harbin Institute of Technology, Winner of Outstanding Young Investigator Award, professor of •School of Astronautics, together with professor Cao Xibin, professor Liu Hong and other faculties, successfully applied for the major project of National Natural Science Foundation. Their project called “Theory and Method of Spacecraft Control in Space Tumbling Target Acquisition” was approved by experts in charge of assessment of projects. It has become the first major project of National Natural Science Foundation in which HIT plays a leading role.
Our university was in charge of this project and it was participated in by the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, National University of Defense Technology, and Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Research Institute. This project mainly focused on the pose, shape measurement, estimation and model, the multi-constrained intelligent autonomous planning, and control of spatial non-cooperative target intersection, the spacecraft non-cooperative rolling target pose tracking, Space non-cooperative target combination, and in the meantime, performs ground and space experiments to validate the control method of space tumbling target acquisition spacecraft, to make theoretical breakthroughs in the following three aspects: multi-constrained control of non-cooperative target spacecraft rendezvous, and pose estimation of non-cooperative tumbling target spacecraft and tracking control, variable configuration spacecraft joint posture control. At the same time, it also purses breakthrough of key technology such as the relative failure of the target spacecraft high-precision attitude-tracking ultra-short-range forced with flight control, and non-cooperative rolling target acquisition combined Body rapid posture stability control.
This project relies on the robustness control theory and application of the spacecraft, the basic theory and key technology of robots, two National Key Laboratory of Innovative Research Groups and Robot Technology and System, the National Science and Technology Commission of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Joint Engineering Experiment of the National Development and Reform Commission. The project team consists of three winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, four winners of "Changjiang Scholar”, two experts of "1000 plan." The project team has won 11 national science and technology awards, takes leading position in the relevant theoretical research domestically and internationally. In addition, they had conducted a number of space demonstration projects.
According to the research, this project was established because of the good preparation of our university for many years. Since it was first proposed in 2013, our university has held 15 seminars of many scales and invited academicians, experts of National Outstanding Youth, and officials of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee to make suggestions to the project.
