Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Aeronautical vehicle
Patent
1997-09-02
2000-11-28
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Aeronautical vehicle
701 4, 244169, 244176, 244165, B64G 128
Patent
active
061546917
ABSTRACT:
Controlled momentum gyros are rotated to change the attitude of a satellite as rapidly as possible by rotating them along a great circle path on an imaginary spherical surface around the satellite. Adjustments the gyro rotations are made in two directions, along the spherical surface, as the satellite rotates. All the stored angular momentum in the gyros is used to rotate the satellite, rather than limiting the rotation of the gyros to avoid instabilities from singularities in traditional control laws.
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Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Greenstien Robert E.
Hernandez Olga
Honeywell International , Inc.
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