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Time Optimal State Feedback Control with Application to a Spacecraft with Cold Gas Propulsion
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  • Samuel J. Kitchen-McKinley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Sergey V. Drakunov, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
7-1-2017
Abstract/Description

A cold gas propulsion system is well suited to provide the required thrust for a small surveyor spacecraft operated near an asteroid or planetary surface. The cold gas propellant can obtained in-situ from local surface or atmospheric constituents. For small spacecraft, the cold gas system may be limited to only on-off control of the main tank where the generated thrust is directly dependent on the tank pressure. As such the thrust will slowly decrease as the propellant is expended. A state feedback, time optimal, control law is developed for a vehicle with propellant is expended. A state feedback, time optimal, control law is developed for a vehicle with decreasing thrust in translational motion. The success of the control law is shown in simulation.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1366
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation Information
Samuel J. Kitchen-McKinley and Sergey V. Drakunov. "Time Optimal State Feedback Control with Application to a Spacecraft with Cold Gas Propulsion" IFAC PapersOnLine Vol. 50 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 7223 - 7228
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sergey_v_drakunov/52/