Attitude tracking for flexible spacecraft from quaternion measurements

Author

Di Gennaro, S.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Univ. di L´´Aquila, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

4090

Abstract

In this paper the attitude tracking problem is solved for a flexible spacecraft in the case of measurements of the variables describing the altitude error. Such a control could be applied in tolerance of the spacecraft control system and the success of the mission. The result is a dynamic controller capable of reconstructing the information regarding the spacecraft angular velocity and those regarding the modal variables, describing the dynamics of the flexible appendages present in the spacecraft.

Keywords

angular velocity control; attitude control; fault tolerance; nonlinear control systems; space vehicles; tracking; altitude error; attitude tracking; dynamic controller; fault tolerance; flexible appendages; flexible spacecraft; information reconstruction; modal variables; quaternion measurements; spacecraft angular velocity; spacecraft control system; Angular velocity; Angular velocity control; Control nonlinearities; Control systems; Error correction; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Quaternions; Space vehicles; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2002, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7516-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2002.1185007

Filename

1185007