| Title: |
Satellite Attitude Control with a six-Control Moment Gyro Cluster tested under Microgravity Conditions |
| Authors: |
Evain, Hélène; Alazard, Daniel; Rognant, Mathieu; Solatges, Thomas; Brunet, Antoine; Mignot, Jean; Rodriguez, Nicolas; Dias-Ribeiro, Adrien |
| Contributors: |
Centre National d'Études Spatiales - CNES (FRANCE); Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE); Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales - ONERA (FRANCE); Département Conception et conduite des véhicules Aéronautiques et Spatiaux - DCAS (Toulouse, France) |
| Publication Year: |
2019 |
| Collection: |
OATAO (Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte - Université de Toulouse) |
| Subject Terms: |
Autre; Control moment gyros; Attitude control; Microgravity; Singularit |
| Description: |
The attitude control of a satellite equipped with a six-Control Moment Gyro (CMG) cluster is studied, taking into account CMG failure cases and constraints like actuator saturation and real-time aspects. The design of the steering law that allocates the required torques among the actuators is made complex by singularities (gimbal angles of the CMGs where no torque can be created along an axis). This paper describes the problem of a constrained allocation applied to the CMG system, and explains the selected solution. An experimental setup with six CMGs has been designed. It calculates in real-time the attitude guidance laws and control loop. Agile manoeuvres simulating nanosatellite attitude reorientations have been successfully carried out during a European Space Agency (ESA) parabolic flight campaign. The results show that the steering law performs as expected even in case of CMG failures. |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/23902/1/Evain_23902.pdf; HAL : hal-02166772; Evain, Hélène and Alazard, Daniel and Rognant, Mathieu and Solatges, Thomas and Brunet, Antoine and Mignot, Jean and Rodriguez, Nicolas and Dias-Ribeiro, Adrien. Satellite Attitude Control with a six-Control Moment Gyro Cluster tested under Microgravity Conditions. (2019) In: International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics 2019 (ISSFD), 24 February 2019 - 28 February 2019 (Melbourne, Australia). |
| Availability: |
https://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/23902/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.229ED617 |
| Database: |
BASE |