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“Control of a gravity gradient stabilised satellite using fuzzy logic”

Authors: Aage Skullestad, Kjetil Olsen, Stein Rennehvammen and Håvard Fløystad
Affiliation: Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, Buskerud College of Engineering
Reference: 2001, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 141-152.

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Keywords: 3-axes stabilisation, satellite, Fuzzy control, simulation.

Abstract: This paper describes attitude control of a small gravity gradient stabilised satellite. A gravity gradient stabilised satellite has limited stability and pointing capabilities, and magnetic coils are added in order to improve the accuracy of the attitude control. The magnetic coils are controlled using a fuzzy logic controller, based on a combination of membership functions and rules. The control of the pitch axis is separated from the roll and azimuth axes and excellent pitch angle accuracy is achieved. The roll and azimuth axes are controlled using a common magnetic coil, that has a non-linear and time-varying torque characteristic and, therefore, accurate roll and azimuth angular control become much more difficult to achieve. However, combining one roll controller and two azimuth controllers result in an acceptable roll and azimuth angular accuracy after a few orbital periods.

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BibTeX:
@article{MIC-2001-3-2,
  title={{Control of a gravity gradient stabilised satellite using fuzzy logic}},
  author={Skullestad, Aage and Olsen, Kjetil and Rennehvammen, Stein and Fl{\o}ystad, H{\aa}vard},
  journal={Modeling, Identification and Control},
  volume={22},
  number={3},
  pages={141--152},
  year={2001},
  doi={10.4173/mic.2001.3.2},
  publisher={Norwegian Society of Automatic Control}
};

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