Determination and Control of the Satellites’ Attitude by using a Pyramidal Configuration of Four Control Moment Gyros

Romulus Lungu, Mihai Lungu, Mihai Ioan

2015

Abstract

The paper presents a new architecture for mini-satellites’ attitude control using a cluster consisting of four control moment gyros, in pyramidal configuration, and feedback from the quaternion and angular velocity vectors. The designed control law modifies the cluster’s equivalent gyroscopic moment, the equivalent kinetic moment and the angular velocities’ vector, this leading to the modification of the quaternion vector and to the change of the satellite‘s attitude. Matlab environment is used for the architecture’s software implementation and validation, this being achieved for a mini-satellite involved in a typical motion around its own axis.

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in Harvard Style

Lungu R., Lungu M. and Ioan M. (2015). Determination and Control of the Satellites’ Attitude by using a Pyramidal Configuration of Four Control Moment Gyros . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-122-9, pages 448-456. DOI: 10.5220/0005507304480456


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco15,
author={Romulus Lungu and Mihai Lungu and Mihai Ioan},
title={Determination and Control of the Satellites’ Attitude by using a Pyramidal Configuration of Four Control Moment Gyros},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2015},
pages={448-456},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005507304480456},
isbn={978-989-758-122-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Determination and Control of the Satellites’ Attitude by using a Pyramidal Configuration of Four Control Moment Gyros
SN - 978-989-758-122-9
AU - Lungu R.
AU - Lungu M.
AU - Ioan M.
PY - 2015
SP - 448
EP - 456
DO - 10.5220/0005507304480456