Title :
A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for GYROLITE Stability
Author_Institution :
Synchrosat Limited, Canada
fDate :
3/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The attitude stability problem of a GYROLITE spacecraft is investigated by using modern control tools. It is shown that the spacecraft may have a stable attitude even in presence of unstable roots. The only requirement to guarantee this stability is that the sum of all the roots of the system characteristic equation must be negative.
Keywords :
Attitude control; Differential equations; Motion analysis; Satellites; Space vehicles; Spinning; Stability criteria; Subspace constraints; Sufficient conditions; Vectors;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.1980.308949
