Title :
Thruster design for position/attitude control of spacecraft
Author :
Servidia, P.A. ; Sanchez Pena, Ricardo S.
Author_Institution :
CONAE
fDate :
10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The objective of this work is to design the configuration of thrusters and valves of a propulsion system which should reject external and internal perturbations to control position and attitude of a spacecraft. As has been proved in a previous paper by Pena et al. (see ibid., vol. 36, no. 3, 2000), there exist configurations of 6 thrusters which can achieve this task, even under the failure of any one of them. Nevertheless, that previous result only presents analysis conditions and furthermore its implementation would demand also 6 valves, one for each thruster. Here we propose a design method that can solve the aforementioned problem with 6 thrusters/3 valves.
Keywords :
aerospace propulsion; attitude control; position control; space vehicles; valves; spacecraft attitude control; spacecraft position control; spacecraft propulsion system; thruster design method; valves; Actuators; Attitude control; Control systems; Design methodology; Failure analysis; Force control; Propulsion; Space vehicles; Sufficient conditions; Valves;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.2002.1145741