A Robust Control Approach for Maneuvering a Flexible Spacecraft

  • Sung, Yoon-Gyeoung (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Lee, Jea-Won (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Kim, Hunmo (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Published : 2001.02.01

Abstract

In the paper, a robust control mechanism is presented to maneuver a flexible spacecraft with the deflection reduction during large slewing operation at the same time. For deflection reduction and maneuvering of the flexible spacecraft, a control mechanism is developed with the application of stochastic optimal sliding-mode control, a linear tracking model and input shaping technique. A start-coast-stop maneuver is employed as a slewing strategy. It is shown that the control mechanism with he strategic maneuver results in better performance and is more efficient than rigid-body-like maneuver, by applying to the Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (SCOLE) system in a space environment.

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