Flight control of small crew return vehicles during atmospheric reentry will be an important technology in any human space flight missions undertaken in the future. In this talk, a control system design is presented for small crew return vehicles in which reaction control system (RCS) thrusters are the only actuators available for attitude control. The control system consists of two modules: (i) the attitude controller using the trajectory linearization control (TLC) technique, and (ii) the reaction control system (RCS) control allocation module using a lookup table technique. The presentation describes the design and implementation of the TLC attitude control and the lookup table RCS control allocation for nominal flight along with design verification test results.


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    Title :

    Flight Control Approach for Small Reentry Vehicles


    Contributors:
    T. Bevacqua (author) / T. Adam (author) / J. Zhu (author) / P. P. Rao (author)

    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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