Title :
Spacecraft thruster control allocation problems
Author :
Servidia, Pablo A. ; Peña, Ricardo Sánchez
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Electron., Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract :
We consider the control allocation problem in a spacecraft thruster configuration. It consists on the determination of the force command to be sent to each thruster in order to point the total torque and/or thrust vectors. Here, we state four possible practical problems and propose a control allocation algorithm based on a subgradient optimization, which is shown to be faster than existing allocators.
Keywords :
optimal control; optimisation; space vehicles; vectors; control allocation; spacecraft thruster control; subgradient optimisation; thrust vectors; Actuators; Attitude control; Control systems; Force control; Optimal control; Position control; Position measurement; Robust control; Space vehicles; Torque control;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAC.2004.841923