The invention provides an angle-measurement-only multi-pulse self-adaptive closed-loop rendezvous guidance method based on second-order
cone programming, and belongs to the relative navigation and rendezvous guidance technology of spacecrafts. According to the method, firstly, an angle-only-measurement relative navigation dynamical model and a measurement model based on a CW equation are constructed under LVLH coordinates,
system state
observability analysis is carried out, the
orbit maneuvering condition enabling the state to be
observable is obtained, and the condition is used for constructing an optimal guidance index. Secondly, analyzing and modeling the rendezvous guidance error source, and deducing to obtain a
relative orbit guidance error
covariance model through error
covariance analysis; thirdly, on the basis of a second-order
cone programming method, guidance fuel consumption and
system state
observability conditions are fused, and a multi-target weighted cost function of optimal rendezvous guidance is jointly constructed; meanwhile, based on the established guidance error
covariance model, a cost function weight
index system with a self-adaptive adjustment function is designed, and real-time self-adaptive adjustment of a guidance strategy along with change of
system performance is achieved. The method solves the problems of high fuel consumption, poor flexibility and the like caused by separate design of the relative navigation and the rendezvous guidance model in the traditional only-
sight-line measurement rendezvous guidance method, and has the ability of adaptively adjusting and optimizing the rendezvous fuel consumption and the relative
navigation system observability.