A major challenge of the Mariner Jupiter-Saturn '77 spacecraft was devising a suboptimal attitude controller that could meet the demanding mission requirements. The challenge was met by implementing a discrete stochastic controller for a specially designed onboard computer. The paper describes the design and operation of the controller, based on a simple model of spacecraft dynamics. Two types of cruising modes are considered: inertial cruise, where spacecraft attitude is determined from gyro position outputs, and celestial cruise, where position information is obtained from sun sensors and a star tracker. These two cruise modes under conditions of disturbances were simulated on computer, and the results showed that the controller maintained the spacecraft attitude with low rates. An appendix gives details on the single-step predictor.


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    Titel :

    Attitude control of Mariner Jupiter-Saturn spacecraft


    Beteiligte:
    Bahrami, K. A. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Symposium on Automatic Control in Space ; 1976 ; Rottach-Egern, Germany


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.1976


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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