DocumentCode
404677
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
Volume
3
fYear
2003
fDate
9-12 Dec. 2003
Firstpage
2722
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on
ISSN
0191-2216
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7924-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.2003.1273035
Filename
1273035
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