The feasibility of developing a simple quasi-feedback solar attitude controller is explored. The case of arbitrarily-shaped satellites carrying two pairs of solar surfaces in circular orbits is considered. An approximate analytical approach is used to synthesize the suitable open-loop control relations enabling decay of the satellite librations. The quasi-feedback control scheme suggested here is found to be quite effective in damping the pitch motion. The proposed control approach appears to be particularly attractive as it requires knowledge of the librational angle and velocity only at a fixed satellite position in orbit.


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    Title :

    Satellite Librational Damping Using a Quasi-Feedback Solar Controller


    Contributors:
    kumar, K. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1982-09-01


    Size :

    1659598 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English