Drag-free control of the GOCE satellite: Noise and observer design

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 501-509

  Canuto, Enrico ^a   Molano, Andres ^a   Massotti, Luca ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ESTEC EOP SF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Drag free; Embedded model; Noise; Observer; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SENSORS; BOOLEAN VARIABLES; CLOSED-LOOP; CLOSED-LOOP EIGENVALUES; CONTROL MODES; DIFFERENT MODES; DRAG-FREE; DRAG-FREE AND ATTITUDE CONTROLS; DRAG-FREE CONTROL; EMBEDDED MODEL; FEEDBACK CHANNEL; GENERIC MODELS; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL STATE; NOISE; NOISE ESTIMATORS; OBSERVER DESIGN; OCEAN CIRCULATION; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SATELLITE GRAVITY FIELDS; SIMULATED RESULTS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; DESIGN; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK; NAVIGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REAL VARIABLES; SATELLITES; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; STATE FEEDBACK;

DRAG;

EID: 77649182477     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2020169     Document Type: Article

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