Attitude Control of an Underactuated Satellite Using Two Reaction Wheels

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No AccessEngineering NoteAttitude Control of an Underactuated Satellite Using Two Reaction WheelsJefferson R. Chaurais, Henrique C. Ferreira, João Y. Ishihara and Renato A. BorgesJefferson R. ChauraisDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Brasilia, 70910-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Henrique C. FerreiraDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Brasilia, 70910-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, João Y. IshiharaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Brasilia, 70910-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil and Renato A. BorgesDepartment of Electrical Engineering, University of Brasilia, 70910-900 Brasilia, DF, BrazilPublished Online:23 Jul 2015https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G000145SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations About References [1] Reyhanoglu N., "Discontinuous Feedback Stabilization of the Angular Velocity of a Rigid Body with Two Control Torques," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 3, IEEE Publ., Piscataway, NJ, Dec. 1996, pp. 2692–2694. Google Scholar[2] Morin P., "Robust Stabilisation of the Angular Velocity of a Rigid Body with Two Controls," Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996, pp. 51–56. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0947-3580(96)70028-6 SCLEDC 0167-6911 Google Scholar[3] Astolfi A. and Rapaport A., "Robust Stabilization of the Angular Velocity of a Rigid Body," European Journal of Control, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1998, pp. 257–264. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6911(98)00031-0 EJCOFU 0947-3580 Google Scholar[4] Godard G. and Kumar K. D., "Robust Attitude Stabilization of Spacecraft Subject to Actuator Failures," Acta Astronautica, Vol. 68, Nos. 7–8, 2011, pp. 1242–1259. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.10.017 AASTCF 0094-5765 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[5] Mehrabian A., Tafazoli S. and Khorasani K., "On the Attitude Recovery of an Underactuated Spacecraft Using Two Control Moment Gyroscopes," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE Publ., Piscataway, NJ, 2009, pp. 1463–1470. Google Scholar[6] Horri N. and Hodgart S., "Attitude Stabilization of an Underactuated Satellite Using Two Wheels," Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Vol. 6, IEEE Publ., Piscataway, NJ, 2003, pp. 2629–2635. Google Scholar[7] Horri N. and Palmer P., "Practical Implementation of Attitude-Control Algorithms for an Underactuated Satellite," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2012, pp. 40–45. doi:https://doi.org/10.2514/1.54075 JGCDDT 0162-3192 LinkGoogle Scholar[8] Wu S.-F., Steyn W. and Bordany R., "In-Orbit Thruster Calibration Techniques and Experiment Results with UoSAT-12," Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2004, pp. 87–98. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0661(02)00317-9 COEPEL 0967-0661 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[9] Chaurais J. R., Ferreira H. C., Ishihara J. Y., Borges R. A., Kulabukhov A. M., Larin V. A. and Belikov V. V., "A High Precision Attitude Determination and Control System for the UYS-1 Nanosatellite," IEEE Aerospace Conference, IEEE Publ., Piscataway, NJ, 2013, pp. 1–12. Google Scholar[10] Sanyal A. and Lee-Ho Z., "Attitude Tracking Control of a Small Satellite in Low Earth Orbit," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, AIAA Paper 2009-5902, 2009. LinkGoogle Scholar[11] LaSalle J., "Some Extensions of Liapunov's Second Method," IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory, Vol. 7, No. 4, Dec. 1960, pp. 520–527. doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TCT.1960.1086720 IRCTA4 0096-2007 CrossrefGoogle Scholar Previous article Next article