Information-Based Trajectory Planning for Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Tracking and Navigation in Cislunar Space

arXiv:2609.19012 · cs.RO, cs.IT, math.IT, math.OC · Submitted 2026-07-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.IT, math.IT, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-07-18

Updated: 2026-07-18

Terminology

• Information Gain — 36× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Objective Function — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Regularization — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance — 3× in this paper
• Distant Retrograde Orbit — 3× in this paper
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spacecraft-to-Spacecraft Absolute Tracking — 3× in this paper
• Fisher Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory — 2× in this paper
• Kullback-Leibler Divergence — 2× in this paper
• Absolute Motion — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Archetype — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Covariance Propagation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cramer-Rao Lower Bound — 1× in this paper
• Earth-based Space Object — 1× in this paper
• Global Positioning System — 1× in this paper
• Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit — 1× in this paper
• Power Spectral Density — 1× in this paper
• Root Sum Square — 1× in this paper
• Sequential Convex Programming — 1× in this paper
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Successive Convexification: A Superlinearly Convergent Algorithm for Non-convex Optimal Control Problems
• Chance-Constrained Control for Safe Spacecraft Autonomy: Convex Programming Approach

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