Attitude dynamics and control of solar sails with articulated vanes

Mettler, Edward; Acikmese, A. Behcet; Ploen, Scott R.

dc.contributor.author	Mettler, Edward
dc.contributor.author	Acikmese, A. Behcet
dc.contributor.author	Ploen, Scott R.
dc.date.accessioned	2007-09-21T19:04:13Z
dc.date.available	2007-09-21T19:04:13Z
dc.date.issued	2005-08-15
dc.identifier.citation	AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, California, August 15 2005	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40437
dc.description	NASA/JPL	en
dc.description.abstract	In this paper we develop a robust nonlinear algorithm for the attitude control of a solar sailcraft with M single degree-of-freedom articulated control vanes. A general attitude controller that tracks an admissible trajectory while rejecting disturbances such as torques due to center-of-mass to center-of-pressure offsets is applied to this problem. We then describe a methodology based on nonlinear programming to allocate the required control torques among the control vanes. A simplified allocation strategy is then applied to a solar sail with four articulated control vanes, and simulation results are given. The performance of the control algorithm and possible limitations of vane-only control are then discussed.	en
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005	en
dc.subject	solar sails	en
dc.subject	nonlinear control	en
dc.title	Attitude dynamics and control of solar sails with articulated vanes	en
dc.type	Preprint	en