A survey on active magnetic attitude control algorithms for small satellites

MY Ovchinnikov, DS Roldugin - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Control algorithms for the active magnetic attitude control systems are covered in the survey.
Three different situations in the magnetic system implementation are considered. First …

Magnetic spacecraft attitude control: a survey and some new results

E Silani, M Lovera - Control engineering practice, 2005 - Elsevier
The problem of attitude stabilization of a small satellite using magnetic actuators is
considered, a review of the existing approaches based on linear and nonlinear control …

Spacecraft attitude control using magnetic actuators

M Lovera, A Astolfi - Automatica, 2004 - Elsevier
The problem of inertial pointing for a spacecraft with magnetic actuators is addressed and an
almost global solution to the problem is obtained by means of static attitude and rate …

Periodic attitude control techniques for small satellites with magnetic actuators

M Lovera, E De Marchi, S Bittanti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problems of attitude stabilization and disturbance torque attenuation for a small
spacecraft using magnetic actuators is considered and a solution to the problem in terms of …

Global magnetic attitude control of spacecraft in the presence of gravity gradient

M Lovera, A Astolfi - IEEE transactions on aerospace and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of Earth-pointing attitude control for a spacecraft with magnetic actuators is
addressed and a novel approach to the problem is proposed, which guarantees almost …

Magnetic satellite detumbling: The b-dot algorithm revisited

M Lovera - 2015 American Control Conference (ACC), 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first task a spacecraft attitude control system must perform after separation from the
launcher is to detumble the spacecraft, ie, to bring it to a final condition with a sufficiently …

Solely magnetic genetic/fuzzy-attitude-control algorithm for a CubeSat

AR Walker, PT Putman, K Cohen - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
A genetic algorithm was used to optimize performance of a fuzzy inference system acting as
a controller for a magnetically actuated CubeSat. A solely magnetically controlled satellite is …

Optimal magnetic momentum control for inertially pointing spacecraft

M Lovera - European Journal of Control, 2001 - Elsevier
Inertially pointing satellites which use reaction wheels as main actuators for attitude control
are subject to the problem of wheel saturation. This problem can be partially obviated by …

Optimal discrete-time design of three-axis magnetic attitude control laws

T Pulecchi, M Lovera, A Varga - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of designing discrete-time attitude controllers for three-axis stabilization of
magnetically actuated spacecraft is considered. Several methods are discussed and an …

Object-oriented modelling for spacecraft dynamics: Tools and applications

T Pulecchi, F Casella, M Lovera - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The development process for spacecraft control systems relies heavily on modelling and
simulation tools for spacecraft dynamics. For this reason, there is an increasing need for …