Guidance Navigation and Control for Chang’E-5 Powered Descent
Open Access
- 1 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Space: Science & Technology
Abstract
To achieve the goal of collecting lunar samples and return to the Earth for the ChangE-5 spacecraft, the lander and ascender module (LAM) of the ChangE-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the lunar surface on 1 Dec., 2020. The guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system is one of the critical systems to perform this task. The GNC system of previous missions, ChangE-3 and ChangE-4, provides the baseline design for the ChangE-5 LAM, and the new characteristics of the LAM, like larger mass and liquid sloshing, also bring new challenges for the GNC design. The GNC design for the descent and landing is presented in this paper. The guidance methods implemented in the powered descent are presented in detail for each phase. Propellant consumption and hazard avoidance should be particularly considered in the design. A reconfigurable attitude control is adopted which consists of the quaternion partition control, phase and gain stabilization filter, and dual observer. This controller could provide fast attitude maneuver and better system robustness. For the navigation, an intelligent heterogeneous sensor data fusion method is presented, and it is applied for the inertial measurement unit and velocimeter data. Finally, the flight results of the LAM are shown. Navigation sensors were able to provide valid measurement data during descent, and the thrusters and the main engine operated well as expected. Therefore, a successful soft lunar landing was achieved by the LAM.Keywords
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