Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Artificial potential field based autonomous guidance & navigation for a planar constellation of satellites
Ömer Çetin, Güray Yılmaz · 2015
Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles"Artificial Potential Based Autonomous Guidance and Navigation for a Planar Constellation of Satellites"by Omar Cetin and Guray Yilmazin the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), June 2015, pp. 87-94After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.This paper copied text and figures from the papers listed below. The original text was copied with little or no attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission."Internetworking with Satellite Constellations"by Lloyd Woodin his PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2001"Unmanned Ground Vehicle Swarm Formation Control Using Potential Fields"by L. Barnes. M. Fields, and K. Valavanisin the Proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, July 2007Ring is a kind of formation which is used for star or delta type planar constellations especially for low earth orbiting satellites to provide worldwide coverage. In this work, the proposed solution is based on artificial potential fields which are generated by using bivariate functions to control the satellite constellation geometry and the inter-satellite spacing. Bivariate potential functions and the sigmoid limiting functions are used for generating the limited and combined vector fields that control the velocity and heading of satellites in formation. Satellites in ring formation must be distributed in equally spacing to provide collision avoidance and best cover needs with minimum number of satellites. In this paper a novel, autonomous ring formation and station keeping method is considered for satellites by using artificial potential field based guidance and navigation functions. The success of the approach is demonstrated with simulation studies.