Control of rotational motion with application to spacecraft attitude

Author

Wisniewski, Rafal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control Eng., Aalborg Univ., Denmark

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

4610

Abstract

The paper adopts the energy shaping method to rotational motion control of a spacecraft. The configuration manifold considered in this paper is the 3-sphere. The quaternion and its conjugate momentum are used for global representation of motion in the canonical form. The design algorithm presented is validated for three typical attitude control objectives: stabilization in an inertial coordinate system, slew maneuver with obstacle avoidance, and active vibration damping for a low Earth orbit spacecraft

Keywords

attitude control; collision avoidance; damping; inertial navigation; motion control; space vehicles; stability; vibration control; active vibration damping; attitude control; canonical form; configuration manifold; conjugate momentum; energy shaping; inertial coordinate system; low Earth orbit spacecraft; obstacle avoidance; rotational motion control; slew maneuver; spacecraft; stabilization; Aerospace engineering; Algorithm design and analysis; Attitude control; Damping; Low earth orbit satellites; Motion control; Potential energy; Quaternions; Shape control; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7061-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.980931

Filename

980931