Control of Large Flexible Space Structures

✍ Scribed by Suresh M. Joshi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 131
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a research monograph that addresses the basic issues in controlling large, flexible space structures (LFSS), and presents some controller synthesis methods developed by the author. The main problem considered is that of controller synthesis for precision attitude control and vibration suppression in LFSS. The bulk of the book presents two basic approaches for controller synthesis: 1. a class of "dissipative" controllers which utilize collocated actuators and sensors, and 2. a class of model-based compensators. The book will serve to stimulate research activity in control theory with application to LFSS, and will be very useful to researchers, practising engineers, academic faculty, and students in control and aerospace sciences. The background required of the reader is familiarity with basic control theory including state variable methods, which is generally attained at the first-year postgraduate level.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-26
A class of robust dissipative controllers....Pages 27-105
LQG-based controllers....Pages 106-162
Related topics....Pages 163-183

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering;Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering;Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, Traffic;Mechanics;Systems Theory, Control;Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control;Optimization