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Spacecraft spatial attitude control, II

M.V.Levsky

Research Institute of Space Systems, Khrunichev State research and production Space Center

 

In this paper within of the statement, that is accepted and discussed early in chapters 1, 2 (M.V.Levsky. Spacecraft spatial attitude control. Int. J. "APAAS", No.2(25), v.12, 2007, 141-151), it is presented the subsequent solving of reorientation problem.

In the work it is obtained, that optimal control is determined in a class of two-impulse controls and realizes motion of spacecraft consisting of three phases: a short-term increase of angular rate with the maximal control moment, free motion with the zero control moment and short-term braking with the maximal control moment. Requirements of an optimality are responded for all three phases of control: the stage of free rotation satisfies to a condition of an optimality since the propellant expense at him is absent; phases of acceleration and braking also satisfy to criterion of an optimality since the minimal expenses of propellant for acceleration and braking is determined only by size of the added kinetic moment (which is determined by inertial characteristics of a spacecraft, initial and final conditions and time of turn Т). Mathematical modeling has shown that the given control with account the external disturbing moments is optimum also. Effective ways of reorientation control of a spacecraft, invariant both to external disturbances and to parametrical indeterminacies of motion model are submitted.

Essential lack of known analytical solutions is absence of numerical estimates of fuel economy at their realization in relation to ways of control of spacecraft's spatial position used now. Mathematical simulation has allowed to receive values of propellant economy at realization of the submitted laws of control of a spacecraft turn such as orbital station. Quantitative ratings of profitability of the offered ways of spacecraft reorientation have been received by statistical methods after numerical experiments using personal computer. The simulation model of spacecraft motion around the center of mass, accepted for the research, differs by the account of the significant gravitational and aerodynamic moments which operate to a spacecraft.

For practical application, important it is not so much that the turn was optimal under the propellant expense, how much that new control allowed to receive essential economy of propellant in comparison with known types of control and besides could be simply enough realized by existing onboard systems. The developed control laws of spatial reorientation allow to decrease an expense of fuel for a turn of existing spacecrafts from 25 to 40 percents.

 



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