Mass Property Estimation for Mated Flight Control

Author

Zhao, Yang ; Zhang, Dawei ; Tian, Hao ; Li, Na

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp. Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Mass property of space vehicle changes apparently during and after mating and cannot be predicted or measured at times, yet it needs to be accurately known for mated flight control or attitude control and momentum management. A discrete Kalman Filter (KF) based estimation method is developed, measurements of single point acceleration, angular velocity and angular acceleration are employed to extract the inertia matrix and mass center. Simulation results show that the method can be used for continues online estimation without propellant consumption.

Keywords

Kalman filters; aircraft control; attitude control; estimation theory; space vehicles; angular acceleration measurement; angular velocity measurement; attitude control; discrete Kalman Filter based estimation method; inertia matrix extraction; mass center extraction; mated flight control; momentum management; online mass property estimation; propellant consumption; single point acceleration measurement; space vehicle; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Aerospace control; Extraterrestrial measurements; Predictive models; Propulsion; Space vehicles; Tellurium; Tensile stress; Weight control; KF; estimation; mass property; mated flight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2009. ICCMS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3562-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3561-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCMS.2009.55

Filename

4797360