AOE 5984
Advanced Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
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Instructor: Dr. Chris Hall, Randolph
224D, 231-2314,
cdhall@vt.edu
Lectures: M W 2:30
– 3:45, Randolph 320
Office hours: 8:00 – 9:30 M T W Th (or
by appointment)
Text: Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and
Control, C. D. Hall, Lecture Notes posted on Handouts
page.
This course provides a continuation of AOE 4140 Spacecraft
Dynamics and Control, to include advanced topics appropriate for students
beginning research in this field.
Prerequisites: AOE 4140.
(3H, 3C).
Goal: To introduce students to advanced dynamics
and control problems of pointing spacecraft.
Homework Policy: The emphasis in this course will be on
hands-on applications. Students will
develop numerical simulations using the Open-SESSAME C++ framework, with each
student adding to this extensible framework.
The grade will be based on homeworks (25%), one mid-term exam (25%), and
a semester project with report and presentation (50%).
Grading Policy: Homework 25%
Midterm 25%
Project 50%
Honor Code: The University Honor
Code will be maintained. You are
encouraged to discuss homework assignments with your
instructor, teaching assistant, and classmates. However, all work submitted for
a grade must reflect your own understanding of the material. You may not copy answers to homework problems
and you may not assist others or seek assistance on exams.
Topics: Objective
Review of attitude control concepts
Identify the principal characteristics, applications, advantages and
disadvantages of various attitude control concepts.
Simulation of
Attitude Motion Using C++ and/or Matlab
Review of numerical integration techniques. Application of the
Open-SESSAME Framework and Matlab simulation tools.
Linearization and Feedback Control
Nonlinear Stability
Nonlinear Control
Optimal Control
Spacecraft Applications
Understand the application of basic linear control theory to basic attitude
control problems.
Other Spacecraft Dynamics Books:
V. V. Beletsky and E. M. Levin, Dynamics of
Space Tether Systems, 1993, Univelt.
This is an excellent monograph on tethered spacecraft. The second author drew all the illustrations
of tethers.
V. A. Chobotov, Spacecraft
Attitude Dynamics and Control, 1991, Orbit Books.
This book covers all the right topics, but the notational inconsistency and
errors make it difficult to use.
P. C. Hughes, Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, 1986,
Wiley.
This is an excellent text on the attitude dynamics (no control) of rigid and
“quasi-rigid” spacecraft, especially the stability analysis. The author uses vector and tensor notation
extensively.
T. R. Kane, P. W. Likins and D.
A. Levinson, Spacecraft Dynamics, 1983, McGraw-Hill.
This book does several advanced topics using “Kanesian”
dynamics. If you haven’t studied his
method, this is a bit of work.
M. H. Kaplan, Modern Spacecraft Dynamics & Control,
1976, Wiley.
Comparable to Wiesel’s book. Several advanced problems worked out in some
detail.
L. Meirovitch, Methods of Analytical Dynamics,
1970, McGraw-Hill.
The last couple of chapters of this book cover several spacecraft dynamics
problems from the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian points of view.
F. P. J. Rimrott, Introductory Attitude
Dynamics, 1989, Springer-Verlag.
Similar to Hughes, except uses scalar notation. Includes flexibility
effects.
H. Schaub and J. L. Junkins,
Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems,
AIAA, 2003. Excellent new
book covering both orbital and attitude dynamics.
M. J. Sidi, Spacecraft
Dynamics and Control, 1997, Cambridge.
A “practical engineering approach” to both orbital and
attitude dynamics and control.
W. T. Thomson, Introduction to Space Dynamics, 1986, Dover.
An excellent and affordable introduction to a variety of
topics in spacecraft dynamics.
J. R. Wertz, editor, Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control,
1978, D. Reidel.
This is a monumental tome written by many people. It is quite application-oriented, with many
examples.
B. Wie, Space
Vehicle Dynamics and Control, AIAA, 1998.
Comprehensive text including detailed review of control theory, and both orbit and
attitude dynamics and control.
W. E. Wiesel, Spaceflight Dynamics,
McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1997
Elementary text covering orbit and attitude dynamics and control and applications.
The following journals publish
papers on space dynamics:
Acta
Astronautica
Celestial Mechanics and
Dynamical Astronomy
IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control
Johns Hopkins
APL Technical Digest
Journal of Guidance,
Control and Dynamics
Journal of Spacecraft and
Rockets
Journal of the
Astronautical Sciences
Journal of the British
Interplanetary Society
RCA Review
The following Proceedings series
have papers on space dynamics:
Advances in the
Astronautical Sciences (American Astronautical Society)
Progress in Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA)