The design of an attitude control system for a flexible spacecraft using magnetic actuation is considered. The nonlinear, linear, and modal equations of motion are developed for a general flexible body. Magnetic control is shown to be instantaneously underactuated, and is only controllable in the time-varying sense. A PD-like control scheme is proposed to address the attitude control problem for the linear system. Control gain limitations are shown to exist for the purely magnetic control. A hybrid control scheme is also proposed that relaxes these restrictions by adding a minimum control effort from an alternate three-axis actuation system. Floquet and passivity theory are used to obtain gain selection criteria that ensure a stable closed-loop system, which would aid in the design of a hybrid controller for a flexible spacecraft. The ability of the linearized system to predict the stability of the corresponding nonlinear system is also investigated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/33545 |
| Date | 27 November 2012 |
| Creators | Stellini, Julian |
| Contributors | Damaren, Christopher John |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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