Angular velocity determination of spinning solar sails using only a sun sensor |
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Authors: | Zhai Kun |
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Institution: | School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China |
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Abstract: | The direction of the sun is the easiest and most reliable observation vector for a solar sail running in deep space exploration. This paper presents a new method using only raw measurements of the sun direction vector to estimate angular velocity for a spinning solar sail. In cases with a con-stant spin angular velocity, the estimation equation is formed based on the kinematic model for the apparent motion of the sun direction vector;the least-squares solution is then easily calculated. A performance criterion is defined and used to analyze estimation accuracy. In cases with a variable spin angular velocity, the estimation equation is developed based on the kinematic model for the apparent motion of the sun direction vector and the attitude dynamics equation. Simulation results show that the proposed method can quickly yield high-precision angular velocity estimates that are insensitive to certain measurement noises and modeling errors. |
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Keywords: | Condition number Least-squares method Solar sail Spinning Velocity determination |
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