• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.579-592
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• 2016

CNUSAIL-1, to be launched into low-earth orbit, is a cubesat-class satellite equipped with a $2m{\times}2m$ solar sail. One of CNUSAIL's missions is to deploy its solar sail system, thereby deorbiting the satellite, at the end of the satellite's life. This paper presents the design results of the attitude control system for CNUSAIL-1, which maintains the normal vector of the sail by a 3-axis active attitude stabilization approach. The normal vector can be aligned in two orientations: i) along the anti-nadir direction, which minimizes the aerodynamic drag during the nadir-pointing mode, or ii) along the satellite velocity vector, which maximizes the drag during the deorbiting mode. The attitude control system also includes a B-dot controller for detumbling and an eigen-axis maneuver algorithm. The actuators for the attitude control are magnetic torquers and reaction wheels. The feasibility and performance of the design are verified in high-fidelity nonlinear simulations.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.187-197
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• 2020

In order to avoid the high cost and high risk of demonstration mission of rendezvous-docking technology, missions using nanosatellites have recently been increasing. However, there are few successful mission cases due to many limitations of nanosatellites like small size, power limitation, and limited performances of sensor, thruster, and controller. To improve the probability of rendezvous-docking mission success using nanosatellite, a rendezvous-docking phase analysis tool for nanosatellites is developed. The tool serves to analyze the relative position and attitude control of the chaser satellite at the docking phase. In this tool, the Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is implemented as a controller, and Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is adopted as a filter for noise filtering. To verify the performance and effectiveness of the developed tool for nanosatellites, simulation study was conducted. Consequently, we confirmed that this tool can be used for the analysis of relative position and attitude control for nanosatellites in the rendezvous-docking phase.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.14-25
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• 2006

This paper is focused on designing an implementable control law to perform spacecraft various missions using momentum exchange devices such as reaction wheels(RWs) and control moment gyros(CMGs). A compact equation of motion of a spacecraft installed with various momentum exchange devices is derived in this paper. A hybrid control law is proposed for precision attitude control of agile spacecraft. The control law proposed in this paper allocates control torque to the CMGs and the RWs adequately to satisfy the precision attitude control and large angle maneuver simultaneously. The saturation problem of reaction wheels and the singularity problem of control moment gyros are considered. The problems are successfully resolved by using the proposed hybrid closed loop control law. Finally, the proposed hybrid control law is demonstrated by numerical simulations.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.145-154
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• 2006

Many kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed for a few decades and some of them are now in operational use. Although each UAV as well as a piloted aircraft might have restrictions to execute some tasks simultaneously or to carry some payloads, one with an automatic chase aircraft might have the potential of multi-capabilities to conduct a variety of missions or to carry more storages. This paper introduces a chase UAV control system to enhance a leader (reference) aircraft capability which has storage restriction. The automatic chase guidance and control system will be introduced with the pure pursuit guidance law combined with relative velocity error corrections, and a dynamic inversion technique in order to generate the guidance forces.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.245-250
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• 1998

위성 체의 자세결정과 자세제어는 인공위성의 임무수행능력을 결정하는 중요한 요인으로 그 정밀도를 탑재된 센서와 자세제어 구동기의 성능에 의해 결정된다. 본 연구는 비선 형 제어이론과 선형 제어이론을 적용하여 4개의 반작용 휠을 사용하는 3축 안정화 지구지향위성의 자세 제어법칙을 디자인하고 작동범위의 크기에 따른 제어 방법의 적합성을 비교하였다. 또한 휠 속도 한계를 초과하는 것을 방지하기 위해 자기 토커를 사용하여 휠모멘텀을 제거할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 이 때 반작용 휠은 전력소모를 최소화시키도록 배치된 경우로, 자기 토커는 3축 직교 자기 토커로 가정하였다. 휠 속도를 제어하는 휠 토커의 크기는 한계 치를 초과하지 않도록 디자인하였다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.48.5-49
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• 2018

우주를 관측하기 위한 대부분의 천문학 미션을 위한 인공위성은 광학계를 가지는 망원경 구조물과 관측기기를 포함하고 있다. 망원경 구조물은 작은 렌즈 광학계에서 미터급의 대형 미러 광학계에 이르기까지 다양하며, 관측기기에 포함된 광학계는 그 용도에 따라서 다양한 형태를 보여준다. 이러한 광학계는 광기계 설계를 통한 광학계 지지구조물을 필수적으로 설계하며, 이 광기계 설계는 광학적 성능을 만족시키면서 광학계가 발사체의 진동, 충격 및 열진공의 우주환경을 모두 견뎌낼 수 있도록 설계해야만 한다. 이 발표에서는 최근 한국에서 수행한 천문우주 미션 경험을 바탕으로 실제 적용된 광학계 마운팅 기법을 사례별로 정리하고 그 연구결과를 소개하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.379-384
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• 2011

This paper performs numerical prediction of fuel temperature in the fuel tanks of unmanned air vehicles for both ground static non-operating and in flight transient conditions. The calculation is carried out using a modified Dufort-Frankel scheme. For this calculation, it is assumed that a non-operating vehicle on the ground is subjected to repeating daily cycles of ambient temperature with solar radiation and wind under 1%, with a 20% probability of hot day conditions. The energy conservation equation is used as the governing equation to calculate heat transfer between the fuel tank surface and the ambient environment. Results of the present analysis may be used as the estimated initial values of fuel temperatures in a vehicle's fuel tank for the purpose of analyzing transient fuel temperatures during various flight missions. This research also demonstrates that the fuel temperature of the front tank is higher than that of the rear tank, and that the difference between the two temperatures increases in the later phases of flight due to the consumption of fuel.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2003

Attitude control law synthesis for the three-axis attitude maneuver of a flexible spacecraft model is presented in this study. The basic idea is motivated by previous works for the extension into a more general case. The new case includes gravitational gradient torque which has significant effect on a wide range of low earth orbit missions. As the first step, the fully nonlinear dynamic equations of motion are derived including gravitational gradient. The control law design based upon the Lyapunov approach is attempted. The Lyapunov function consists of a weighted combination of system kinetic and potential energy. Then, a set of stabilizing control law is derived from the basic Lyapunov stability theory. The new control law is therefore in a general form partially validating the previous work in some sense.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.147-161
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• 2008

In this paper, fine attitude estimation using low-cost sensors for attitude pointing missions of spacecraft is addressed. Attitude kinematics and gyro models including bias models are in general utilized to estimate spacecraft attitude and angular rate. However, a linearized model and a transition matrix are derived in this paper from nonlinear spacecraft dynamics with external disturbances. A Kalman filtering technique is applied and offers relatively high estimation accuracy under dynamic uncertainties. The proposed approach is demonstrated using numerical simulations.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.90-98
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• 2012

In this paper, the Integrated Guidance and Control (IGC) law is proposed for the Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (RUAV). The objective of the IGC law is to consider the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the RUAV and to design a guidance law which takes into consideration the nonlinear relationship between kinematics and dynamics. In order to control the RUAV system, sliding mode control scheme is adopted. As the RUAV is an under-actuated system, a slack variable approach is used to generate the available control inputs. Through the Lyapunov stability theorem, the stability of the proposed IGC law is proved. In order to verify the performance of the IGC law, numerical simulations are performed for waypoint tracking missions.