Advanced Control of Space Vehicles
Advanced Control of Space Vehicles
Special Master of Aerospace Engineering
Credits
6
Period
September 24th, 2023 - January 12th, 2024
Time and place
Tuesdays, 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Lecture room 3
Thursdays, 11:00pm - 2:00pm, Lecture room 3
Lecture room 3 is at the School of Aerospace Engineering, via Salaria 851
Office hours
Contact me to fix an appointment
e-mail: fabio.celani@uniroma1.it
ph.: +39 06 4991 9755
Learning objectives
Main aim of this course is to introduce students to tools from modern control theory applied to design and analysis of attitude control systems for aerospace vehicles. Those tools are important for designing advanced attitude control systems for which advanced performances are required. Students will be introduced to software applications that support analysis and design by those tools.
Requirements
It is required that students know basic principles of spacecraft dynamics and control as taught in an introductory course such as Spacecraft control.
Competences and learning outcomes
Students will learn mathematical results useful for analyzing and designing attitude control systems for aerospace vehicles.
Students will also learn how to use software tools supporting analysis and design of attitude control systems for aerospace vehicles.
Contents
Spacecraft detumbling, design of detumbling law, analysis of nonlinear closed-loop, Lyapunov's stability.
Spacecraft attitude regulation, design of attitude regulation law, analysis of nonlinear closed-loop. Krasovskii - La Salle's theorem, Lyapunov indirecet method.
Simulations with Matlab/Simulink.
Evaluation of the student’s training
Students will be evaluated trough an individual oral exam.
Bibliography and software application
• Matlab + Simulink + Aerospace Toolbox + Control Systems Toolbox + Symbolic Math Toolbox.
The textbooks are available for consultation at Sapienza libraries (see Sapienza library catalog).
Sapienza students can install Matlab and its toolboxes following the instructions indicated in this page (only in Italian).