Time Optimal State Feedback Control with Application to a Spacecraft with Cold Gas Propulsion

Samuel J. Kitchen-McKinley; Sergey V. Drakunov

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1366

Time Optimal State Feedback Control with Application to a Spacecraft with Cold Gas Propulsion

Samuel J. Kitchen-McKinley, Sergey V. Drakunov

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Abstract

A cold gas propulsion system is well suited to provide the required thrust for a small surveyor spacecraft operated near an asteroid or planetary surface. The cold gas propellant can obtained in-situ from local surface or atmospheric constituents. For small spacecraft, the cold gas system may be limited to only on-off control of the main tank where the generated thrust is directly dependent on the tank pressure. As such the thrust will slowly decrease as the propellant is expended. A state feedback, time optimal, control law is developed for a vehicle with propellant is expended. A state feedback, time optimal, control law is developed for a vehicle with decreasing thrust in translational motion. The success of the control law is shown in simulation.

Original language	American English
Journal	IFAC PapersOnLine
Volume	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1366
State	Published - Jul 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Control of systems in vehicles
Guidance
navigation and control of vehicles
Space exploration and transportation
Optimal control theory
Variable structure control

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Navigation, Guidance, Control and Dynamics
Propulsion and Power
Space Vehicles
Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

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