REST-TO-REST SLEW MANEUVER OF THREE-AXIS ROTATIONAL FLEXIBLE SPACECRAFT

Abstract This paper presents a slew maneuver control design of three-axis rotational flexible spacecraft. The focus of the work is to investigate the nonlinear effect of the three axis maneuver for a flexible spacecraft when a vibration suppression technique for linear systems such as input shaping is used in the control design. A simple method of slewing three-axis rotational spacecraft using input shaping is proposed and the proposed technique is implemented on an experimental three-axis spacecraft simulator.