Patent ID: 9102421
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: B64G

Abstract:
1. An attitude control device for space station comprising a space station structure including habitable area, a plurality of solar arrays, a plurality of propellant tanks, a plurality of propulsion systems, a plurality of docking ports; a plurality of state sensors for measuring three attitude angles about three principal axes and time derivatives thereof; and a plurality of thrusters for generating control torque and for stabilizing the three attitude angles, the attitude control device comprising: an identification frequency selecting device finding a plurality of frequencies of disturbance torque applying Fourier transform to the three attitude angles measured by the plurality of state sensors while speed proportional control of the space station is conducted, and selecting an identification frequency, that is a pass frequency of a band pass filter generating a frequency component of the control torque and the three attitude angles sufficiently away from a plurality of frequencies dominant in the three attitude angles such that disturbance torque has no influence on the frequency component of the control torque and the three attitude angles generated by the band pass filter, and hence the accuracy of moment of inertia identification; a moment of inertia identification operator calculation unit generating a first order time derivative and a second order time derivative of the three attitude angles, generating a frequency component thereof by applying a band pass filter with a pass frequency at the identification frequency, and calculating a moment of inertia identification operator, a three by three matrix with components that are functions of the second order time derivative of a frequency component of the three attitude angles at the identification frequency, and polynomials of the first order time derivative of a frequency component of the three attitude angles at the identification frequency; a moment of inertia identification device generating a frequency component of the control torque by applying a band pass filter with a pass frequency at the identification frequency, generating an inverse of the moment of inertia identification operator that consists of the first order and the second order time derivative of the three attitude angles, identifying degree of singularity of the moment of inertia identification operator, calculating the moment of inertia of the space station as the frequency component of control torque at the identification frequency pre-multiplied by the inverse of the moment of inertia identification operator while the moment of inertia identification operator is not close to singular, and holding previously calculated value of the moment of inertia otherwise; a disturbance torque identification device calculating disturbance torque due to solar wind as a difference between the moment of inertia of the space station from the moment of inertia identification device pre-multiplied by a three by three matrix with components that are functions of a second order time derivative of the three attitude angles, and polynomials of a first order time derivative of the three attitude angles, and the control torque; and a control torque calculation unit identifying the end of transient response of the three attitude angles, calculating, after the end of the transient response is identified, a control signal that causes a plurality of thrusters to generate the control torque stabilizing the space station as a linear combination of a three dimensional vector with components proportional to a time derivative of the three attitude angles, a three dimensional vector with components proportional to a sinusoidal function oscillating at the identification frequency that is a sinusoidal component superimposed to the control torque wherein amplitude thereof is gradually reduced to zero as the calculation of the moment of inertia by the moment of inertia identification device is completed, a three dimensional vector nonlinear with respect to the time derivative of the three attitude angles, and the disturbance torque from the disturbance torque identification device; continuing to generate the control torque while the three attitude angles stay at zero; initiating recalculation in the identification frequency selecting device, the moment of inertia identification operator, the moment of inertia identification device, and the disturbance torque identification device; and regenerating the control torque based on the aforementioned recalculation otherwise.