• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.134-135
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• 2002

모든 인공 위성이 궤도 올라가서 정확한 업무를 수행하기 위해서는 정확한 위치 정보와 안정된 자세제어 시스템을 필요로 한다. 궤도에 올라간 후 안정된 자세를 잡기 위해서는 위성체의 덤블링 방지해야되므로 초기 자세제어가 매우 중요하다. 그리고, 안정된 제도에 도달하여 자세를 잡기 의해서는 정확한 자세 정보와 자세를 조절하는 장치가 필요하며, 이를 얻기 위해서 thruster, momentum wheel, 마그네틱 토커, 마그네토미터 등과 같은 장치들이 사용되어진다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.967-974
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• 2017

Reaction wheel shows nonlinear torque response on low-speed region due to friction. Thus precise satellite attitude control on this region is hard to achieve. Previous research tries to solve this problem, by compensating friction or applying dither command. However, due to difficulties of drag torque modeling or frequent zero wheel speed crossing, these methods are not suitable to apply on the real satellite attitude control. To solve this problem, we propose the attitude controller gain adjustment method based on the attitude error.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.97-105
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• 2002

The mission life of a satellite determines the amount of fuel required on-board, while the total mass requirement limits the fuel to be loaded. Hence, for the design of thruster control loop, not only the satellite pointing accuracy but the saving of fuel is to be considered. In this paper, a two-step fuzzy controller is proposed for the thruster control loop to save fuel consumption. This approach combines requirements for pointing control accuracy with minimum fuel consumption into a fuzzy controller design. To demonstrate this approach, we have designed a fuzzy controller for the Sun Pointing Mode of KOMPSAT-1. The performance of this fuzzy controller design is compared with that of PD controller used for KOMPSAT-1.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.171.2-171.2
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• 2012

위성 개발에서 추력기는 위성의 경사각 및 고도 등의 궤도 제어 용도 이외에 위성 동작 초기 혹은 비상 상황에서 안정적인 전력 공급을 위한 자세 제어용 구동기로 사용되어야 하므로 매우 높은 신뢰성을 필요로 한다. 국내의 실용위성을 위해 개발되어 사용되고 있는 출력기는 1 파운드의 작은 용량으로 위성 운영에 일부 제약을 주게 된다. 본 논문은 위성 운영에 있어 반드시 필요한 궤도 천이 절차와 관련하여 기존에 사용된 절차를 보완하기 위한 방법에 대해 기술한다. 기존에 개발된 위성에서는 궤도 조정을 위한 자세 변화에 추력기를 사용하였다. 그러나 위성의 무게가 커짐에 따라 자세 변환을 위한 시간이 오래 걸려 궤도 조정 효율이 떨어지는 요인이 되고 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 자세 변화 과정에서 벡터 방향의 추력으로 인해 원하지 않는 궤도 변화가 생기므로 정밀 궤도 결정에도 영향을 주게 된다. 최근에 개발된 위성의 경우, 위성의 기동 성능을 높이기 위해 고성능 반작용 휠을 사용하므로 이를 이용하여 궤도 천이 전에 자세 변화를 하도록 하고 있다. 이러한 방법을 적용한 결과, 정밀 궤도 결정에 도움이 될 뿐만 아니라 자세 변화로 인한 연료 소모를 줄이는 효과도 있어 위성의 수명 연장에 도움이 되는 것으로 확인되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.11
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• pp.934-943
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• 2018

In these days, demand for agile spacecraft is gradually increasing, due to the fact that agile spacecraft can improve mission capability. In this paper, an attitude control logic based on reaction wheels that can enhance agility of spacecraft is proposed. Three methods are suggested, and all three or part of them can be integrated to the existing attitude control system. First, a feedforward/feedback controller is introduced, and its pros and cons are provided, compared to the conventional feedback controller. Second, an attitude command generation method that fully utilizes torque/momentum capacities of reaction wheels is proposed. Third, a torque (current) control mode for internal wheel control is introduced. Numerical results verify that the settling time can be significantly reduced by employing the feedforward/feedback control method, especially for large angle maneuver.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.80-86
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• 2012

A fast maneuvering LEO satellite producing high resolution images was developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and launched successfully. To achieve accurate pointing and stringent pointing stability, the attitude orbit control subsystem implements high performance star trackers and gyroscopes. In addition, series of on-orbit calibration need to be performed to compensate mainly misalignment errors due to launch shock and on-orbit thermal environment. In this paper, the on-orbit calibration approach is described with the performance enhancement result through flight data analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.526-532
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• 2007

This paper considers a fault tolerant control problem for a spacecraft using reaction wheels. Faults are assumed to be inherent to only actuators(reaction wheels) and a control algorithm to accommodate actuators' faults is proposed. An attitude control loop includes an angular velocity control loop. The time delay control method is used to make a spacecraft follow the command angular velocity and to accommodate actuators' faults. A stability condition for the proposed algorithm is derived and the performance is demonstrated by computer simulations.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.54-57
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• 2008

Magnetic torquer, which uses torque between magnetic dipole moment and earth magnetic field, has been used to control attitude of satellites. In this work, we developed a magnetic torquer for small scientific satellite and test under environmental conditions of the satellite launching and orbital motion have been carried out. The developed magnetic torquer shows saturation magnetic dipole moment of $15Am^2$, linearity of 0.3 % in the range of ${\pm}12Am^2$, mass of 0.46 kg, and power consumption of 1 Watt at magnetic dipole moment of $10Am^2$.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.40-46
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• 2006

It is required to develop a highly reliable attitude & orbit control system of satellite that is less expensive as the technology of satellite design & integration is recently matured dramatically. To accomodate this kind of needs, the two axis attitude control method for wheel-based momentum-biased satellite system whose momentum bias vector points to a certain direction(sun direction), is developed using simple but reliable sensors and actuator: three axis magnetometer and coarse sun sensor are used as sensors, and magnetic torque bars are used as actuator. Classical PD type controller design methodologies are applied on a satellite system for the two axis control with the proper assumptions. Nonlinear simulation results are included to demonstrate the long term stability and the performance of closed-loop system design results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.289-299
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• 2019

Attitude control modeling and simulation (M&S) can be extensively applied in overall development process, from simple algorithm design to on-board software verification. This paper introduces CMG-based attitude control M&S software, which consists of 6-DOF modeling (CMG and space environments modeling), and attitude control algorithm. The M&S software is divided into three modules, from an inner CMG motor control module to an outer earth observation mission module. While an application of this developed software is currently limited to the initial-phase attitude controller development, its application area can be extended to the later-phases by considering sophisticated model information in future.