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Study on dynamics modeling and attitude control of flexible solar sail spacecraft

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

For solar sail spacecraft with control vanes, solar sail attitude dynamics equations considering elastic vibration and vibration equations were deduced. The solutions of solar sail spacecraft dynamics equations were achieved by utilizing the concepts of unconstraint modes. The PD controller with Bang-Bang control strategies was designed considering the problems of yaw axis earth-pointing of solar sail on super-synchronous transfer orbit. Numerical simulation shows that the designed controller based on control vanes is capable of controlling the yaw axis earth-pointing fast and accurately.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-5
Number of pages5
JournalHarbin Gongye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology
Volume43
Issue number7
StatePublished - Jul 2011

Keywords

  • Attitude control
  • Attitude dynamics equations
  • Control vanes
  • Solar sail spacecraft
  • Vibration equations

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