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Satellite Attitude Determination and Control
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Satellite Attitude Determination and Control

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Astronautics & Space Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 4581

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Chingiz Hajiyev

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Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: attitude determination and control; fault diagnosis; fault tolerant control; kalman filtering and integrated navigation systems
Dr. Demet Cilden-Guler

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Department of Astronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: spacecraft attitude estimation; kalman filtering; effects of space disturbances

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Satellites and the instruments on them need to be oriented in space in order to achieve mission requirements such as communicating with a ground station, observing a specific target etc. Attitude determination and control systems (ADCSs) therefore have a key role, especially under strict performance requirements.

An attitude determination system combines inputs from sensor measurements, mostly with the spacecraft dynamics, in the process of determining the attitude states. This might include simply fusing multiple sensors or applying estimation filters such as Kalman filter. Mission-specific needs in terms of attitude determination and possible inherent limitations in the sensor data might result in improving the performance of the attitude algorithms. An attitude control system uses the determined attitude to provide the desired orientation to the instrument or the whole body of the vehicle, or for compensation of the external torques using passive or active systems. Contributions which add value to satellite attitude determination and control are of interest for this Special Issue. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Design and analysis of attitude determination and control systems;
  • Attitude determination based on vector measurements;
  • Attitude sensors;
  • Design and analysis of joint orbit and attitude determination methods;
  • Attitude estimation filters;
  • Fault-tolerant attitude estimation;
  • Sensor fusion methods in ADCS;
  • Attitude actuators;
  • Robust attitude control systems;
  • Fault detection and isolation in ADCS;
  • Fault-tolerant attitude control systems;
  • Attitude determination and control in formation flight.

Prof. Dr. Chingiz Hajiyev
Dr. Demet Cilden-Guler
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • attitude determination
  • attitude control
  • attitude estimation
  • satellite
  • fault detection and isolation
  • sensor fusion
  • Kalman filter
  • attitude actuator
  • attitude sensor
  • robust control
  • fault-tolerant control

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Attitude Tracking Adaptive Control of a Geocentric Polar Displaced Solar Sail
by Tengfei Zhang and Rongjun Mu
Aerospace 2023, 10(7), 606; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10070606 - 30 Jun 2023
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To deal with the attitude tracking control problem of a struck or pierced geocentric polar displaced solar sail (GPDSS), an attitude adaptive control strategy is proposed in this paper under the complex conditions of unknown inertial parameters, external disturbance and input saturation. First, [...] Read more.
To deal with the attitude tracking control problem of a struck or pierced geocentric polar displaced solar sail (GPDSS), an attitude adaptive control strategy is proposed in this paper under the complex conditions of unknown inertial parameters, external disturbance and input saturation. First, on the basis of a flexible solar sail spacecraft attitude dynamics model with damping terms and vibration initial values, an integrated disturbance term, including inertial parameter uncertainties and external disturbance, is constructed. Second, a radial basis function neural network is applied to design a disturbance estimator with an adaptive law to estimate the integrated disturbance in real time. Then, a sliding-mode controller with fixed-time convergence in the reach phase and finite-time stability in the sliding phase is designed, and stability analysis is conducted by using the Lyapunov theory. Finally, comparative simulations with a linear sliding-mode controller and numerical simulations under various workings are performed. The results show that the designed adaptive control strategy can effectively achieve the attitude tracking control of the GPDSS. Full article
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Satellite Attitude Determination Using ADS-B Receiver and MEMS Gyro
by Zhiyong Liu, Kaixing Zhou and Xiucong Sun
Aerospace 2023, 10(4), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10040370 - 12 Apr 2023
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Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a very important communication and surveillance technology in air traffic control (ATC). In the future, more and more satellites will carry out ADS-B technology to perform a global coverage. In order to make full use of the resources [...] Read more.
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a very important communication and surveillance technology in air traffic control (ATC). In the future, more and more satellites will carry out ADS-B technology to perform a global coverage. In order to make full use of the resources in the satellite, this paper proposes a solution for satellite three-axis attitude determination using the ADS-B receiver. The principle of ADS-B-based attitude determination is presented first. On this basis, ADS-B-based methods are employed to solve the problem. To achieve a higher attitude determination precision, gyro is combined with the ADS-B receiver using a multiplicative extended Kalman filter (MEKF). Finally, a simulation is carried out and the result is presented. Full article
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A Multiple-Step, Randomly Delayed, Robust Cubature Kalman Filter for Spacecraft-Relative Navigation
by Rongjun Mu, Yanfeng Chu, Hao Zhang and Hao Liang
Aerospace 2023, 10(3), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10030289 - 15 Mar 2023
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This study is focused on addressing the problem of delayed measurements and contaminated Gaussian distributions in navigation systems, which both have a tremendous deleterious effect on the performance of the traditional Kalman filtering. We propose a non-linear, multiple-step, randomly delayed, robust filter, referred [...] Read more.
This study is focused on addressing the problem of delayed measurements and contaminated Gaussian distributions in navigation systems, which both have a tremendous deleterious effect on the performance of the traditional Kalman filtering. We propose a non-linear, multiple-step, randomly delayed, robust filter, referred to as the multiple-step, randomly delayed, dynamic-covariance-scaling cubature Kalman filter (MRD-DCSCKF). First, Bernoulli random variables are adopted to describe the measurement system in the presence of multiple-step random delays. Then, the MRD-DCSCKF uses the framework of the multiple-step randomly delayed filter, based on a state-augmentation approach, to address the problem of delayed measurements. Meanwhile, it depends on a dynamic-covariance-scaling (DCS) robust kernel to reject the outliers in the measurements. Consequently, the proposed filter can simultaneously address the problem of delayed measurements and inherit the virtue of robustness of the DCS kernel function. The MRD-DCSCKF has been applied to vision-based spacecraft-relative navigation simulations, where quaternions are adopted to represent spacecraft’s attitude kinematics, and the attitude update is completed with quaternions and generalized Rodrigues parameters. Monte Carlo simulations have illustrated that MRD-DCSCKF is superior to other well-known algorithms by providing high-accuracy position and attitude estimations in an environment with different delay probabilities and/or different outlier-contamination probabilities. Therefore, the proposed filter is robust to delayed measurements and can suppress outliers. Full article
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