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Heteroclinic optimal control solutions for attitude motion planning

Biggs, James and Maclean, Craig David and Caubet, Albert (2013) Heteroclinic optimal control solutions for attitude motion planning. In: Australian Control Conference, ACC 2013, 2013-11-04 - 2013-11-05.

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Abstract

An analytical attitude motion planning method is presented that exploits the heteroclinic connections of an optimal kinematic control problem. This class of motion, of hyperbolic type, supply a special case of analytically defined rotations that can be further optimised to select a suitable reference motion that minimises accumulated torque and the final orientation error amongst these motions. This analytical approach could be used to improve the overall performance of a spacecraft’s attitude dynamics and control system when used alongside current flight tested tracking controllers. The resulting algorithm only involves optimising a small number of parameters of standard functions and is simple to implement.

Item type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ID code: 44882
Keywords: optimal control, heteroclinic connections, motion planning, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Mechanics
Subjects: Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery
Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Department: Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Technology and Innovation Centre > Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 17 Sep 2013 11:58
Last modified: 05 Jan 2019 18:00
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44882
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