In this work, a new law for magnetic control of satellites in near-polar orbits is presented. This law has been developed for the UMPSat-2 microsatellite, which has been designed and manufactured by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid. The control law is a modification of the B-dot strategy that enables the satellite to control the rotation rate. Besides, the satellite?s equilibrium state is characterized by having the rotation axis perpendicular to the orbit?s plane. The control law described in the present work only needs magnetometers and magnetorquers, as sensors and actuators, respectively, to carry out a successful attitude control on the spacecraft. A description of the analysis is included. Performance and applicability of the proposed method have been demonstrated by control dynamics together with Monte Carlo techniques and by implementing the control law in the UPMSat-2 mission simulator. Results show good performance in terms of acquisition and stability of the satellite rotation rate and orientation with respect to its orbit?s plane.


    Zugriff

    Download


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Magnetic Attitude Control for Satellites in Polar or Sun-Synchronous Orbits


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-07-01


    Anmerkungen:

    Journal of Guidance, Control And Dynamics, ISSN 0731-5090, 2015-07


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629





    Magnetic Attitude Control for Satellites in Polar or Sun-Synchronous Orbits

    Cubas, Javier / Farrahi, Assal / Pindado, Santiago | AIAA | 2015



    Polar Orbits of Near Earth Satellites

    M. Weisfeld | NTIS | 1962


    High-accuracy attitude control of satellites in elliptic orbits

    Boykin, W. H., Jr. / Fluegge-Lotz, I. | NTRS | 1970