A survey on active magnetic attitude control algorithms for small satellites

MY Ovchinnikov, DS Roldugin - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Control algorithms for the active magnetic attitude control systems are covered in the survey.
Three different situations in the magnetic system implementation are considered. First …

Performance analysis of nano-sat scale μCAT electric propulsion for 3U CubeSat attitude control

JT King, J Kolbeck, JS Kang, M Sanders, M Keidar - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, the complexity of CubeSat missions has been increasing steadily as the
platform capabilities have drastically improved. Missions involving high-accuracy pointing …

Attitude stabilization of a satellite having only electromagnetic actuation using oscillating controls

R Misra, R Wisniewski, A Zuyev - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
We consider the problem of attitude stabilization for a low Earth orbit satellite having only
electromagnetic actuation. Such a satellite is not fully actuated, as the control torque is the …

Satellite attitude control using a novel constrained magnetic linear quadratic regulator

H Arefkhani, SH Sadati, M Shahravi - Control Engineering Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a novel Constrained Magnetic Linear Quadratic Regulator (CM-LQR)
scheme that generates a control torque vector on a plane approximately perpendicular to …

Development of Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation for CubeSat Platform: Focusing on Magnetometer and Magnetorquer

H Shim, OJ Kim, M Park, M Choi, C Kee - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study is aimed at addressing the practical challenges of conducting hardware-in-the-
loop simulation (HILS) for a CubeSat attitude determination and control system (ADCS) with …

[HTML][HTML] 3Cat-8 Mission: A 6-Unit CubeSat for Ionospheric Multisensing and Technology Demonstration Test-Bed

L Contreras-Benito, K Osipova, JN Buitrago-Leiva… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the mission analysis of 3Cat-8, a 6-Unit CubeSat mission being
developed by the UPC NanoSat Lab for ionospheric research. The primary objective of the …

[PDF][PDF] Attitude determination, control and operating modes for CONASAT Cubesats

V Carrara, HK Kuga, PM Bringhenti… - … Symposium on Space …, 2014 - academia.edu
CONASAT is being designed to gather environmental data like rain volume, temperature,
humidity, air pollution, ocean streams, environmental hazards, etc. collected and transmitted …

[PDF][PDF] Optimized Ferromagnetic Core Magnetorquer Design and Testing for LEO Nanosatellite Attitude Control

G Villalba-Alumbreros… - The Applied …, 2024 - journals.riverpublishers.com
Magnetorquers are a very suitable solution for the nanosatellite's attitude and orbital control
of low Earth orbit (LEO) given its constraints: small available volume, limited power …

Attitude regulation with bounded control in the presence of large disturbances with bounded moving average

A Li, A Astolfi, M Liu - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The attitude regulation problem with bounded control for a class of satellites in the presence
of large disturbances, with bounded moving average, is solved using a Lyapunov-like …

Attitude control of the asteroid origins satellite 1 (AOSAT 1)

R Nallapu, S Shah, E Asphaug… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Exploration of asteroids and small-bodies can provide valuable insight into the origins of the
solar system, into the origins of Earth and the origins of the building blocks of life. However …