Attitude control system proposed for SERPENS-2 space mission

Autor: Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler, André Luís da Silva, Antonio G. V. de Brum, Felipe Coelho, Leandro Baroni, Eduardo dos Santos Ferreira, Maria Cecília Zanardi
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Computational and Applied Mathematics. 37:4743-4756
ISSN: 1807-0302
0101-8205
DOI: 10.1007/s40314-018-0574-x
Popis: SERPENS mission involves research and development of nanosatellites and is inserted in a set of activities carried on by Brazilian universities in the scope of strategies coordinated by AEB (Brazilian Space agency). The first satellite of a series, SERPENS-1, was put into orbit in September 2015, retiring in March 2016. SERPENS-2 mission is currently being designed. The experiments to be carried out in SERPENS-2 are: X and Gamma rays detection; South Atlantic magnetic anomaly detection and testing of a pulsed plasma thruster. Each experiment is related to the attitude. This paper is concerned with the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) design of a 3U CubeSat. A proposal of ADCS for SERPENS-II mission is described concerning both the mission and the attitude requirements. The modeling of the satellite and of its attitude dynamics is preliminarily studied considering the proposed ADCS. Results of the first control mode (de-tumbling) are presented and meet the requirements, as expected. An initial development of the second control mode is also evaluated: an attitude regulator in the local horizontal local vertical frame, with pure magnetic actuation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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