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Robust Controllers for a Flexible Satellite Model

Optimization and Control 2023-03-01 v2

Abstract

We consider a PDE-ODE model of a flexible satellite that is composed of two identical flexible solar panels and a center rigid body. We prove that the satellite model is exponentially stable in the sense that the energy of the solutions decays to zero exponentially. In addition, we construct two internal model based controllers, a passive controller and an observer based controller, such that the linear and angular velocities of the center rigid body converge to the given sinusoidal signals asymptotically. A numerical simulation is presented to compare the performances of the two controllers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.03292,
  title  = {Robust Controllers for a Flexible Satellite Model},
  author = {Thavamani Govindaraj and Jukka-Pekka Humaloja and Lassi Paunonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03292},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

32 pages, 10 figures

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