Stabilization and Control of Small Satellites

ConSat
Attitude Estimation and Control of Small Satellites.

This project unifies a number of problems of stabilisation and control of the attitude motion of small satellites that can lead to results useful for space industry. Both passive and active control methods are considered. ISR/IST role in the project is to concentrate on the attitude control estimation and active control comparing several different methods. The control and estimation algorithms have been tested in simulations of PoSAT-1 and real data from PoSAT-1 and the Danish Orsted satellites. Cooperation links with other international groups (University of Aalborg, Denmark, and University of Surrey, UK) have been established.

Reference:
FCT – PRAXIS XXI 3/3.1/CTAE/1942/95
URL:
http://lci.isr.ist.utl.pt/projects/consat/
ID: 65
From: 01-1997
To: 01-2000
Funders: FCT
Partner: Universidade da Beira Interior (PT)

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