Research Summaries

Back Robust Adaptive Control with External Disturbances and Unmolded Dynamics

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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