Globally stable feedback laws for near-minimum-fuel and near-minimum-time pointing maneuvers for a landmark-tracking spacecraft

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 443-466

  Schaub, Hanspeter ^a   Robinett, Rush D ^b   Junkins, John L ^a,c  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c AAS ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATE ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRAJECTORIES;

EULER'S PRINCIPAL ROTATION AXIS; LANDMARK TRACKING SPACECRAFTS; RODRIGUES PARAMETERS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030257697     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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