• DocumentCode
    1233794
  • Title

    Spacecraft thruster control allocation problems

  • Author

    Servidia, Pablo A. ; Peña, Ricardo Sánchez

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Electron., Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    245
  • Lastpage
    249
  • Abstract
    We consider the control allocation problem in a spacecraft thruster configuration. It consists on the determination of the force command to be sent to each thruster in order to point the total torque and/or thrust vectors. Here, we state four possible practical problems and propose a control allocation algorithm based on a subgradient optimization, which is shown to be faster than existing allocators.
  • Keywords
    optimal control; optimisation; space vehicles; vectors; control allocation; spacecraft thruster control; subgradient optimisation; thrust vectors; Actuators; Attitude control; Control systems; Force control; Optimal control; Position control; Position measurement; Robust control; Space vehicles; Torque control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2004.841923
  • Filename
    1393143