Backward reachable tubes for spacecraft collision avoidance

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Spacecraft Collision Avoidance

Accepted to the 20th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA 2026), Almaty, Kazakhstan. We pose two-satellite same-orbit collision avoidance as a zero-sum differential game on planar Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire dynamics in the RTN frame, compute backward reachable sets via the HJI PDE, and integrate them with a hybrid supervisory automaton governing nominal, evasive, and recovery modes.

May 2026 · Larry Hui, Jordan Kam, William Su, Jianshu Zhou