Performance of a novel heat based model for spacecraft attitude estimation

Labibian, Amir; Alikhani, Alireza; Pourtakdoust, Seid H.

doi:10.1016/j.ast.2017.08.021

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“…The space environment during the spacecraft travelling time and mission continues to be a major cause of anomalies in many space missions. The most common factors of such anomalies are surface charging and discharging, solar radiation heating loads, and the existence of orbital debris in space as indicated by several published studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In addition, the solar load, shielding material, onboard equipment location, thermal control and air conditioning systems must be considered during the design stage of spacecraft/satellites [13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Modeling and Thermal Analysis of a Moving Spacecraft Subject to Solar Radiation Effect

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The impact of solar radiation on spacecraft can increase the cooling load, degrade the material properties of the structure and possibly lead to catastrophic failure of their missions. In this paper, we develop a computational model to investigate the effect of the exposure to solar radiation on the thermal distribution of a spacecraft with a cylindrical shape which is traveling in low earth orbit environment. This is obtained by the energy conservation between the heat conduction among the spacecraft, the heating from the solar radiation, and the radiative heat dissipation into the surroundings while accounting for the dynamics of the space vehicle (rotational motion). The model is solved numerically using the meshless collocation point method to evaluate the temperature variations under different operating conditions. The meshless method is based on approximating the unknown field function and their space derivatives, by using a set of nodes, sprinkled over the spatial domain of the spacecraft wall and functions with compact support. Meshless schemes bypass the use of conventional mesh configurations and require only clouds of points, without any prior knowledge on their connectivity. This would relieve the computational burden associated with mesh generation. The simulation results are found in good agreement with those reported in previously-published research works. The numerical results show that spinning the spacecraft at appropriate rates ensures low and uniform temperature distribution on the spacecraft, treated as thick-walled object of different geometries. Therefore, this would extend its lifetime and protect all on-board electronic equipment needed to accomplish its mission.

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Modeling and Thermal Analysis of a Moving Spacecraft Subject to Solar Radiation Effect

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“…3 for a spacecraft on a Sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 600km, with 06 : 00 longitude of the ascending node and an orbit period of about 97 min. The orbit is obtained using a model incorporating the first zonal coefficient and a fit to the polynomial (9). The parameters, constants and initial values can be found in Table II and III.…”

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“…Thus, [8] proposes to add an additional sensor in opposing direction to one of the existing sensors to solve this uniqueness issue. The recent work [9] uses three heat flow measurements to acquire the attitude estimation based on an unscented and extended Kalman filter. While the unscented Kalman filter yields better results in accuracy, performance, robustness and stability based on Monte Carlo simulation, it also suffers under higher execution time.…”

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Attitude Reconstruction of a Spacecraft From Temperature Measurements in Solar Eclipse Analysis and Observer Design for a Not Globally Observable Non-Linear System

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2023

IEEE Trans. Contr. Syst. Technol.

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This article proposes a method that uses only a single temperature measurement and angular velocity measurements to estimate the attitude of a spacecraft under the influence of solely infrared irradiation. The system governing the dynamics is highly non-linear with its attitude being defined in the quaternion space. The resulting observability mapping is used to transform the system into a canonical observability form. However, this mapping is not bijective, and a method to find the arising local inverses is proposed. The reconstruction algorithm itself is divided into two separate parts and uses the canonical form. The first part carries out the dynamic estimation of the temperature and its derivatives. The second part uses these derivatives to estimate the attitude by solving a system of non-linear equations. The proposed algorithm achieves the desired results under the assumption that a suitable initial guess of the attitude is available. Numerical simulations show the validity of the algorithm and illustrate errors induced by measurement noise.

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“…This observation verifies the HAM appropriateness to represent a measurement model for AD stochastic formulation. Based on the above results and those presented in [30] and [31], a performance comparison is presented between the proposed HAM package against the other existing AD systems in Table 4.…”

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“…Within this framework, there are some recent studies involving utility of temperature data for flux computation as primary step in AD [28], where limitations, resolution and accuracies of thermal data for heat flux determination are analyzed. Heat flux for AD is proposed in [29], where a basic Levenberg-Marquardt [30]. Moreover, experimental validation of the proposed HAM has been investigated [31], where a cubic laboratory satellite is used for testing within a vacuum chamber lit by a Sun simulator.…”

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Development of a radiation based heat model for satellite attitude determination

Labibian

Pourtakdoust

Alikhani

et al. 2018

Aerospace Science and Technology

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Performance of a novel heat based model for spacecraft attitude estimation

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Modeling and Thermal Analysis of a Moving Spacecraft Subject to Solar Radiation Effect

Modeling and Thermal Analysis of a Moving Spacecraft Subject to Solar Radiation Effect

Attitude Reconstruction of a Spacecraft From Temperature Measurements in Solar Eclipse Analysis and Observer Design for a Not Globally Observable Non-Linear System

Development of a radiation based heat model for satellite attitude determination

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