• DocumentCode
    1131260
  • Title

    A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for GYROLITE Stability

  • Author

    Sen, Asim K.

  • Author_Institution
    Synchrosat Limited, Canada
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1980
  • fDate
    3/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    144
  • Lastpage
    149
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1980.308949
  • Filename
    4102297