Reorientation maneuvers represent a key task for large satellites. This work considers a space vehicle with solar panels and reaction wheels as actuation devices. Solar panels are modeled as flexural beams, using the modal decomposition technique. An inertia-free nonlinear attitude control algorithm, which enjoys quasi-global stability properties, is employed for the numerical simulation of a large reorientation maneuver. Preliminary analysis with ideal actuation allows sizing the control system and identifying the expected elastic displacements. Then, the actuation dynamics is included, and the actual torque transferred to the vehicle no longer coincides with the commanded one, supplied by the nonlinear control algorithm. Moreover, the solar panels are designed to rotate, in order to maximize the power storage during the maneuver. The numerical results prove that the slewing maneuver is successfully completed in reasonable time and without any saturation of the actuation devices, while the elastic displacements remain modest, in spite of the solar panel rotation aimed at pursuing the Sun direction.


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    Title :

    Nonlinear slewing control of a large flexible spacecraft using reaction wheels



    Publication date :

    2022-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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