Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft / / Arthur E. Bryson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bryson, Arthur E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

Here a leading researcher provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of automatic control logic for spacecraft and aircraft. In this book Arthur Bryson describes the linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR) method of feedback control synthesis, which coordinates multiple controls, producing graceful m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Natural Motions of Rigid Spacecraft
• Chapter 2. Spacecraft Sensors and Attitude Determination
• Chapter 3. Attitude Control with Thrusters
• Chapter 4. Attitude Control with Reaction Wheels
• Chapter 5. Attitude Stabilization with Spin
• Chapter 6. Attitude Control with a Gimbaled Momentum Wheel
• Chapter 7. Attitude Control during Thrust Maueuvers
• Chapter 8. Control of Translational Motions
• Chapter 9. Flexibility and Fuel Slosh
• Chapter 10. Natural Motions of Rigid Aircraft
• Chapter 11. Aircraft Seusors
• Chapter 12. Control of Longitudinal Motions of Aircraft
• Chapter 13. Control of Lateral Motions of Aircraft
• Chapter 14. Control of Helicopters near Hover
• Chapter 15. Aeroelastic Systems
• Appendix A. Linear System Representations
• Appendix B. Steady-State Control
• Appendix C. Synthesis of Analog Control Logic
• Appendix D. Synthesis of Digital Control Logic
• Appendix E. Simulation
• Appendix F. Modeling Flexible Systems
• References
• Index