Orientation and control of a flexible spacecraft: planar motion
Author
Morgül, Ömer
Date
1990Source Title
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE 1990
Print ISSN
0191-2216
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
393 - 394
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We consider a flexible spacecraft modeled as a rigid body which rotates in an inertial frame; a light flexible beam is clamped to the rigid body at one end and free at the other end. We assume that the flexible spacecraft performs only
planar motions. We pose two control problems; namely, the orientation and the stabilization of the system. It is shown that suitable boundary controls applied to the free end of the beam and suitable control torques applied to the rigid body solve the problems posed above.
Keywords
Control SystemsMechanical Variables
Equations of motion
System stability
Orientation control
Planar motion
Rigid motions
Spacecraft