• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2004

Attitude control law design for spacecraft large angle maneuvers is investigated in this paper. The feedback linearization technique is applied to the design of a nonlinear tracking control law. The output function to be tracked is the quaternion attitude parameter. The designed control law turns out to be a combination of attitude and attitude rate tracking commands. The attitude-only output function, therefore, leads to a stable closed-loop system following the given reference trajectory. The principal advantage of the proposed method is that it is relatively easy to produce reference trajectories and associated controller.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2007

Minimum-time attitude maneuvers of three-axis stabilized spacecraft are presented to study the feasibility of using three magnetic torquers perform large angle maneuvers. Previous applications of magnetic torquers have been limited to spin-stabilized satellites or supplemental actuators of three axis stabilized satellites because of the capability of magnetic torquers to produce torques about a specific axes. The minimum-time attitude maneuver problem is solved by applying a parameter optimization method for orbital cases to verify that the magnetic torque system can perform as required. Direct collocation and a nonlinear programming method with a constraining method by Simpson's rule are used to convert the minimum-time maneuver problems into parameter optimization problems. An appropriate number of nodes is presented to find a bang-bang type solution to the minimum-time problem. Some modifications in the boundary conditions of final attitude are made to solve the problem more robustly and efficiently. The numerical studies illustrate that the presented method can provide a capable and robust attitude reorientation by using only magnetic torquers. However, the required maneuver times are relatively longer than when thrusters or wheels are used. Performance of the system in the presence of errors in the magnetometer as well as the geomagnetic field model still good.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.166.6-166
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• 2001

An attitude control of an air vehicle based on the variable structure control is proposed. For an air vehicle, minimum weight is required. Thus, it is desired to reduce the input energy. The optimal state portrait curve using time-varying sliding surface is proposed to reduce the control energy. Tracking performance of the closed loop system is guaranteed under the existence of parameter variation and external disturbances.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.31-46
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• 2009

An Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for estimation of the attitude and rate of a spacecraft using only magnetometer vector measurement is developed. The attitude dynamics used in the estimation is the nonlinear Euler's rotational equation which is augmented with the quaternion kinematics to construct a process model. The filter is designed for small satellite in low Earth orbit, so the disturbance torques include gravity-gradient torque, magnetic disturbance torque, and aerodynamic drag torque. The magnetometer measurements are simulated based on time-varying position of the spacecraft. The filter has been tested not only in the standby mode but also in the detumbling mode. Two types of actuators have been modeled and applied in the simulation. The PD controller is used for the two types of actuators (reaction wheels and thrusters) to detumble the spacecraft. The estimation error converged to within 5 deg for attitude and 0.1 deg/s for rate respectively when the two types of actuators were used. A joint state parameter estimation has been tested and the effect of the process noise covariance on the parameter estimation has been indicated. Also, Monte-Carlo simulations have been performed to test the capability of the filter to converge with the initial conditions sampled from a uniform distribution. Finally, the UKF performance has been compared to that of the EKF and it demonstrates that UKF slightly outperforms EKF. The developed algorithm can be applied to any type of small satellites that are actuated by magnetic torquers, reaction wheels or thrusters with a capability of magnetometer vector measurements for attitude and rate estimation.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.651-658
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• 2009

Nonlinear sliding surface design in variable structure systems for spacecraft attitude control problems is studied. A robustness analysis is performed for regular form of system, and calculation of actuator bandwidth is presented by reviewing sliding surface dynamics. To achieve non-singular attitude description and minimal parameterization, spacecraft attitude control problems are considered based on modified Rodrigues parameters (MRP). It is shown that the derived controller ensures the sliding motion in pre-determined region irrespective of unmodeled effects and disturbances.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제14권4호통권38호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2006

현재 위성영상에서 정확한 위치정보를 얻고자 할 때 일반적으로 위성영상에 대응되는 지상에서의 위치 정보, 즉 지상기준점이 필요하다. 이 논문에서는 지상기준점 없이 영상의 위치 정보를 얻기 위하여 동일궤도에서 연속적으로 촬영한 위성영상들 중에서 한 위성영상의 획득한 기준점으로 모델을 수립한 뒤, 수립된 센서모델을 동일궤도상의 다른 영상에 적용할 때의 센서모델의 정확도를 분석하고자 한다. 분석에 사용한 센서모델은 궤도기반센서모델을 사용하며, 여러 위성의 위치 자세 내삽법 및 미지수조합을 시험하여 궤도모델링에 적합한 내삽법(interpolation)과 최적의 미지수 조합을 알아보고자 했다. 실험은 총 420Km의 길이에 해당하는 SPOT-3의 영상 7장과 GPS수신기에서 취득한 기준점을 사용하였다. 실험결과 단일영상에서는 내삽법과 미지수 조합에 따른 결과의 차이는 크게 나타나지 않았으나 궤도모델링 시에는 미지수 조합과 자세와 위치의 내삽법에 따라 다양한 결과가 나타남을 알 수 있다. 또한 적절한 미지수조합과 내삽법을 사용하면 한 영상에서 추출한 기준점만으로 총 420Km의 궤도를 정확하게 모델 할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.82-90
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• 2014

In this paper, the effect of Lorentz force on the stability of attitude orientation of a charged spacecraft moving in an elliptic orbit in the geomagnetic field is considered. Euler equations are used to derive the equations of attitude motion of a charged spacecraft. The equilibrium positions and its stability are investigated separately in the pitch, roll and yaw directions. In each direction, we use the Lorentz force to identify an attitude stabilization parameter. The analytical methods confirm that we can use the Lorentz force as a stabilization method. The charge-to-mass ratio is the main key of control, in addition to the components of the radius vector of the charged center of the spacecraft, relative to the center of mass of the spacecraft. The numerical results determine stable and unstable equilibrium positions. Therefore, in order to generate optimum charge, which may stabilize the attitude motion of a spacecraft, the amount of charge on the surface of spacecraft will need to be monitored for passive control.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.113-122
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• 2002

KSR-III 로켓의 자세제어 시스템 모델링과 최적 벤딩 필터 설계가 이루어졌다. 모델링에는 로켓 강체 동역학, 공력, 슬로싱, 구조적 벤딩, 구동기 동역학, 센서 동역학, 그리고 탑재 컴퓨터 특성이 고려되었다. 시간의 변화에 따른 자세제어 시스템 파라미터들의 변화를 보상하기 위하여 이득 스케쥴링 기법이 사용되었다. 벤딩 모드를 안정화시키기 위한 필터가 매개변수 최적화 방법을 이용하여 설계되었다. 설계된 자세제어 시스템은 주파수 영역에서 요구되는 이득 및 위상 안정성 여유를 가지게 되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.531-536
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• 2003

In this paper, a redesigned guidance and control system for a lunar lander is presented. In past studies, the authors developed a trajectory and attitude control system which achieves the vertical soft landing on the lunar surface. It is confirmed that the system has a good tracking ability to a predefined profile and good robustness against a thruster failure mode where a partial failure of clustered engines was assumed. However, under the previous control laws, the landing point tends to be shifted, in response to the system parameter values, from a target point. Also, an unbalanced moment due to a thruster failure mode was not considered in the simulation. Therefore, in this study, the downrange control is added to the system to enable the vehicle to land at a pre-assigned target point accurately. Furthermore, inhibiting the effect of the unbalanced moment is attempted thorough redesigning the attitude control system. A numerical simulation was performed to confirm the ability of the proposed system with regard to the above problems. Moreover, in the past simulations, a low initial altitude was assumed as an initial condition: in this study, however, the performance of the proposed system is examined over the whole trajectory from an initial altitude of 10 [km] to the lunar surface.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2002

A sliding mode control of spacecraft attitude tracking with actuator, especially reaction wheel, is presented. The sliding mode controller is derived based on quaternion parameterization for the kinematic equations of motion. The reaction wheel dynamic equations represented by wheel input voltage are presented. The input voltage to wheel is calculated from the sliding mode controller and reaction wheel dynamics. The global asymptotic stability is shown using a Lyapunov analysis. In addition the robustness analysis is performed for nonlinear system with parameter variations and disturbances. It is shown that the controller ensures control objectives for the spacecraft with reaction wheels.