Design of Station Keeping Mode for Attitude Orbit Control Subsystem of T-SAT

Station keeping mode （SKM） for Attitude Orbit Control Subsystem （AOCS）; it is an operational approach regarding the attitude dynamics control. The essential features of the design methodology is researching the basic theory and then afterwards, make an iterative design approach using some premise/assumptions, implementing the system simulation through the Simulink Matlab software package, designing the required controllers, monitor and analyzing the responses until the design give the best results within the range required. Firstly the thruster configuration is designed to acquire the parameters of the torque on the satellite. Next, the controllers are based on the well known PID control law. Controllers optimize the attitude and are used during the maneuvers for SKM. Afterwards the simulation results are given, and presented to demonstrate the performance and validity of the AOCS design approach. Finally the simulation results demonstrate that all the requirements were accomplished and the Station Keeping Mode was successfully designed.

Concept Design,Modeling and Station-keeping Attitude Control of an Earth Observation Platform

The stratosphere airship provides a unique and promising platform for earth observation. Researches on the project design and control scheme for earth observation platforms are still rarely documented. Nonlinear dynamics, model uncertainties, and external disturbances contribute to the difficulty in maneuvering the stratosphere airship. A key technical challenge for the earth observation platform is station keeping, or the ability to remain fixed over a geo-location. This paper investigates the conceptual design, modeling and station-keeping attitude control of the near-space earth observation platform. A conceptual design of the earth observation platform is presented. The dynamics model of the platform is derived from the Newton-Euler formulation, and the station-keeping control system of the platform is formulated. The station-keeping attitude control approach for the platform is proposed. The multi-input multi-output nonlinear control system is decoupled into three single-input single-output linear subsystems via feedback linearization, the attitude controller design is carried out on the new linear systems using terminal sliding mode control, and the global stability of the closed-loop system is proven by using the Lyapunov theorem. The performance of the designed control system is simulated by using the variable step Runge-Kutta integrator. Simulation results show that the control system tracks the commanded attitude with an error of zero, which verify the effectiveness and robustness of the designed control system in the presence of parametric uncertainties. The near-space earth observation platform has several advantages over satellites, such as high resolution, fast to deploy, and convenient to retrieve, and the proposed control scheme provides an effective approach for station-keeping attitude control of the earth observation platform.

Preliminary Design for Station-Keeping of a Communication Satellite

This paper has analyzed the perturbations of a GeoX-Sat （virtual satellite） in geostationary orbit （GEO）. And control methods, strategies and calculation processes are designed of the East-West （E/W） station-keeping of the GeoX-Sat. The Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem （AOCS） provides attitude information and maintains the required spacecraft attitude during all phases of the mission, starting at spacecraft separation from the launch vehicle and throughout its operational lifetime. For the GeoX-Sat exercising design, due to time limitations; only two modes of operation were considered after assumed launching operation： normal and station keeping.

Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for robotic airship with model uncertainty and external disturbance

An adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control （AFSMC） ap- proach is proposed for a robotic airship. First, the mathematical model of an airship is derived in the form of a nonlinear control system. Second, an AFSMC approach is proposed to design the attitude control system of airship, and the global stability of the closed-loop system is proved by using the Lyapunov stability theorem. Finally, simulation results verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control approach in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances.