Global magnetic attitude control of spacecraft in the presence of gravity gradient

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2722-2727

  Lovera, Marco ^a   Astolfi, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; SPACECRAFT;

GLOBAL STABILITY; GRAVITY GRADIENTS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542348679     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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