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Several heuristic procedures to estimate the rotor position of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) via signal injection have been reported in the literature. Using averaging theory, a framework to analyse such schemes has been…
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This paper discusses spacecraft control using variable-speed CMGs. A new operational concept for VSCMGs is proposed. This new concept makes it possible to approximate the complex nonlinear system by a linear time-varying system (LTV). As a…
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