Zero-Propellant Maneuver Guidance: Rotating the international space station with computational dynamic optimization

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 53-73

  Bedrossian, Nazareth S ^a   Bhatt, Sagar ^a   Kang, Wei ^b   Ross, I Michael ^c  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MOMENT GYROSCOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; MAXIMUM VALUES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SOLAR ARRAYS; TORQUE CAPABILITY;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATTITUDE CONTROL; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NAVIGATION; PROPELLANTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

EID: 70350128530     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2009.934089     Document Type: Article

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