• DocumentCode
    1938916
  • Title

    Underactuated translational control of a rigid spacecraft

  • Author

    Oland, E. ; Schlanbusch, Rune ; Kristiansen, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Technol., Narvik Univ. Coll., Narvik, Norway
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    2-9 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    In this paper we consider a spacecraft with one main thruster for translational control and reaction wheels for full attitude control. This is an underactuated control problem, which in this paper is solved using backstepping in order to couple the position tracking problem with the attitude. Assuming that the thrust is non-zero the nonlinear tracking control law is shown to be uniformly globally exponentially stable, and simulations validate these results.
  • Keywords
    aerospace control; asymptotic stability; attitude control; nonlinear control systems; position control; space vehicles; attitude control; backstepping; exponential stability; nonlinear tracking control law; position tracking problem; rigid spacecraft; underactuated control problem; underactuated translational control; Acceleration; Actuators; Attitude control; Biological system modeling; Space vehicles; Trajectory; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Aerospace Conference, 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Big Sky, MT
  • ISSN
    1095-323X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1812-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AERO.2013.6497324
  • Filename
    6497324