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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 1097-1109Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2010.5545176
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- NSF [CMS-0093456]
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Guiding the rotational motion of a spacecraft subject to constraints on its permissible orientation often leads to nonconvex optimal control problems. In this paper, we consider convex parameterizations of sets associated with the constrained rigid body orientations. We then elaborate on ramifications of such a parameterization in the development of steering laws for autonomous spacecraft reorientation that are based on convex optimization algorithms. Such problems appear in almost every space science mission equipped with heat- or light-sensitive instruments, e. g., cryogenically cooled infrared telescopes, star trackers, and low-energy ion composition analyzers. An example, demonstrating the viability of the proposed algorithm for constrained multiple spacecraft reorientations concludes the work presented here.
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