SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL USING DISSIMILAR REDUNDANT ACTUATORS

2009-02-12
Kahraman, Ozgur
Tekinalp, Ozan
Low Earth orbit satellites are usually equipped with magnetic torquers for momentum dumping and reaction wheels to carry out three axis attitude stabilization and control. These two different types of actuators mixed and used together to carry out slew maneuvers. The problem of allocating the control to these different types of actuators is realized using a recently developed algorithm called blended inverse. The algorithm is compared with the Moore-Penrose pseudo inverse demonstrating its success in realizing the desired maneuver while overcoming singularities.
AAS/AIAA 19th Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

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Citation Formats
O. Kahraman and O. Tekinalp, “SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL USING DISSIMILAR REDUNDANT ACTUATORS,” Savannah, GA, 2009, vol. 134, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53318.