Title :
Global magnetic attitude control of spacecraft in the presence of gravity gradient
Author :
Lovera, Marco ; Astolfi, Alessandro
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
The problem of Earth pointing attitude control for a spacecraft with magnetic actuators is addressed and an almost global stability result is proved for an adaptive PD-like state feedback control law. Simulation results illustrate the performance of the proposed control law.
Keywords :
actuators; attitude control; gravity; pointing systems; space vehicles; stability; state feedback; Earth pointing attitude control; global stability; gravity gradient; magnetic actuators; magnetic attitude control; spacecraft; state feedback control law; Actuators; Adaptive control; Coils; Earth; Geomagnetism; Gravity; Optimal control; Satellites; Space vehicles; State feedback;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7924-1
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2003.1273035
