This paper establishes a dynamics model for deploying solar panels with clearances by using a practical method and provides a useful way to identify the effects of clearances on spacecraft systems. Considering the clearance of joints, a contact dynamic model is established using the nonlinear spring-damp model and the friction effect is considered by using the Coulomb friction model. Based on t...

Currently, the most complex spacecraft attitude determination and control tasks are ultimately governed by ground-based systems and personnel. Conventional on-board systems face severe computational bottlenecks introduced by serial microprocessors operating on inherently parallel problems. New computer architectures based on the anatomy of the human brain seem to promise high speed and fault-to...

This paper investigates the attitude tracking problem for rigid spacecraft. An adaptive backstepping sliding mode control law is proposed to solve this problem in the presence of inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. The control scheme is developed by combining sliding mode control with adaptive backstepping technique to achieve fast and accurate tracking responses. The proposed cont...

This article presents a unified synchronization framework with application to precision formation flying spacecraft. Central to the proposed innovation, in applying synchronization to both translational and rotational dynamics in the Lagrangian form, is the use of the distributed stability and performance analysis tool, called contraction analysis that yields exact nonlinear stability proofs. T...

INTRODUCTION The Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) plays an essential role in the flight control of a spacecraft. This system usually contains a minimum of three reaction wheels (often 4-5 wheels are used for optimization and redundancy [1]). By accelerating the appropriate wheels, the system can produce a zero-mean reaction torque about any axis to the spacecraft, which enables the spac...

Some problems on guidance and robust gyromoment attitude control of agile spacecraft for remote sensing the Earth surface are considered. Elaborated methods for dynamic research of the spacecraft programmed angular motion at principle modes under external and parametric disturbances, partial discrete measurement of the state and digital control of the gyro moment cluster by the few-excessive gy...