Gain-Scheduled Control/Steering Design for a Spacecraft with Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyros

Abstract

In this paper, we establish the dynamics of a spacecraft with Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyros (VSCMGs). Based on this dynamics, we develop an easy-to-use Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) model, in which we deal with 3-axis attitude control of a spacecraft with pyramid-array VSCMGs. Although it is hard to consider overall stability and control performance of attitude control at the same time with conventional Lyapunov function-based controllers, this paper attains both of them via LPV control theory. And also we design two types of Gain-Scheduled (GS) steering laws for singularity avoidance and escape. Through numerical examples, the efficiency of the proposed GS controller and the GS steering laws is demonstrated.

Keywords

• spacecraft
• attitude control
• variable-speed control moment gyro
• gs control
• gs steering