Attitude Control of Artificial Satellites via Intelligent Digital Redesign

This paper proposes an approach to attitude control artificial satellites with jet-engine. The jet-engine produces on-off thrust, which can be modelled as pulse-width-modulated (PWM) function. Therefore, the problem is converted to design a PWM controller and we develop an efficient technique for this purpose using digital redesign. The digital redesign is a converting technique a well-designed analog controller into the equivalent digital one maintaining the property of the original analog control system in the sense of state-matching. The redesigned digital controller is again converted into PWM controller using the equivalent area principle. We show a computer simulation of the attitude control of artificial satellites.