Magnetic spacecraft attitude control: A survey and some new results

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 357-371

  Silani, Enrico ^a   Lovera, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Model predictive control; Periodic systems; Spacecraft magnetic control; Time varying systems

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SATELLITES; STABILIZATION;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; FEASIBILITY; MAGNETIC ACTUATORS;

SPACECRAFT;

CONTROL SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 10844280890     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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