Fiscal Year	2009
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s)	Agrawal, Jr., Brij N.
Sponsor	National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary	The objective of this research program is to develop and evaluate robust adaptive control techniques for accurate pointing and tracking of spacecraft with flexible appendages, external disturbances and unmodeled dynamics. The main issues are the estimation of the inertia matrix and the need for compensating for vibration effects due to flexible appendages. The proposed controller must guarantee sufficient robustness and "well behaved" response to be deployed in space in an unsupervised environment.
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