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January 19, 2025
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Design and experimental verification of a robust control to avoid individual calibration of multiple reaction wheels in satellites

Publicated to: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. 75 (1): 767-778 - 2025-01-01 75(1), DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.053

Authors:

Olfe, K; Bello, A; Fernandez, J; Rodriguez, J; Lapuerta, V
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Aeronaut & Espacio, Ctr Computat Simulat, EUSOC, Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

Momentum exchange devices like momentum wheels and reaction wheels are widely used in spacecraft attitude control. Managing their internal momentum, so that it is interchanged with the angular momentum of the rest of the spacecraft, usually involves controlling the angular velocity of these devices. This can be done by characterizing and performing a precise calibration on the wheel. However, this approach has some drawbacks, as small manufacturing differences require characterizing each individual wheel that is used, and the performance of each wheel can suffer small changes through the lifecycle of the satellite. This can be especially laborious in the case of spacecrafts with several reaction wheels, constellation of satellites or, more generally, when a set of reaction wheels are manufactured with the same specifications, since it would require calibrating each of the wheels. This paper presents a new control design concept that avoids the necessity of calibrating all the wheels by formulating the calibration variations as a disturbance rejection problem, where the errors introduced by the absence of a dedicated calibration curve are treated as an external low frequency noise added to the command velocity, and a H1 controller is synthesized to reject it. Experimental results have been obtained with a set of laboratory satellites, showing that the proposed methodology is able to handle out-of-calibration configurations, and improves the performance even when all wheels are well calibrated. (c) 2024 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
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Keywords

Attitude controlH -infinity controH-infinity controlReaction wheelRobust controlSatellite constellationSpacecraft attitude

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 12/55, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Aerospace.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-25:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
    • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/88333/

    As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

    • Views: 121
    • Downloads: 75
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    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (OLFE GARCIA, KARL STEPHAN) and Last Author (LAPUERTA GONZALEZ, MARIA VICTORIA).

    the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been LAPUERTA GONZALEZ, MARIA VICTORIA.

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