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
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