Abstract
We consider attitude consensus for small satellites, where each satellite has internal rotating-mass actuators that, unlike reaction wheels, cannot perform complete rotations. Instead, these actuators are limited to a radians of total rotation. We present and analyze two attitude-feedback consensus control algorithms, where the controls for each satellite are the angles of rotation of the actuators and these controls are continuous but only piecewise-continuously differentiable sinusoids. Each control algorithm can either include or not include a leader satellite, which can be either rotating or non-rotating. The first control algorithm achieves local attitude consensus for the case where each satellite uses relative-attitude feedback of its neighbors. The second control algorithm achieves almost global attitude consensus for the case where each satellite uses absolute-attitude feedback of its neighbors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021 |
| Pages | 4255-4260 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665441971 |
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| State | Published - May 25 2021 |
| Event | 2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021 - Virtual, New Orleans, United States Duration: May 25 2021 → May 28 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the American Control Conference |
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| Volume | 2021-May |
| ISSN (Print) | 0743-1619 |
Conference
| Conference | 2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Virtual, New Orleans |
| Period | 5/25/21 → 5/28/21 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work is supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NSSC17M0040) and the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1538782).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Automatic Control Council.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering