Autonomous thruster failure recovery on underactuated spacecraft using model predictive control

Thruster failures historically account for a large percentage of failures that have occurred on orbit. These failures are typically handled through redundancy, however, with the push to using smaller, less expensive satellites in clusters or formations there is a need to perform thruster failure rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pong, Christopher Masaru, Saenz Otero, Alvar, Miller, David W
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Univelt, Inc. 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81885
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-0614