Attitude motion path planning on Lyapunov periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem

The path of attitude motion for a rigid body in fully nonlinear Lyapunov periodic orbits is planned in the restricted three-body problem. The attitude dynamic characteristics in phase plane are analyzed, and the path constraint conditions are proposed to avoid the divergence of phase trajectories. Then, the path planning method for the three-body problem is proposed by employing the Pseudospectral method. Based on this, solving strategy of attitude-orbit coupled periodic solutions is obtained by adding event constraint conditions. Compared with previous work, the proposed method effectively avoids the divergence of attitude motion and saves a large amount of work on determining the initial guess. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a large number of planning work are carried out. Besides, the paper addresses the question that how translational motions and configuration of the spacecraft affect the planned results.