• DocumentCode
    3117591
  • Title

    Drag-Free and Attitude Control for the GOCE satellite

  • Author

    Andreis, Davide ; Canuto, Enrico S.

  • Author_Institution
    Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (e-mail: davide.andreis@polito.it).
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-15 Dec. 2005
  • Firstpage
    4041
  • Lastpage
    4046
  • Abstract
    The paper concerns Drag-Free and Attitude Control (DFAC) of the European satellite GOCE to be employed during scientific mission phase. DFAC has been designed and tested on the end-to-end GOCE simulator. The design has followed the Embedded Model Control methodology, where a spacecraft/environment discrete-time model (embedded model) becomes the real-time core of the DFAC and is interfaced to the plant via tunable command and measurement laws. Simulation results are presented.
  • Keywords
    Attitude control; Extraterrestrial measurements; Force measurement; Frequency measurement; Gravity; Helium; Satellite ground stations; Sea measurements; Space vehicles; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9567-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.2005.1582794
  • Filename
    1582794