This project continued the work on the development and testing of an Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS) for a three-unit Cube Satellite mission led by WPI, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Space Research Centre in Poland. This project focused on hardware selection in three areas: sensors, actuators, and processors. The attitude maintenance and control scheme was validated using numerical code written in MATLAB®. A secondary goal of the project was to outline a design for a test-bed where the control policies could be verified experimentally. This project developed a complete test-bed stand, leaving the construction portion for future ADCS teams, as well as recommendations for the parts to be used in the experimental section.

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Creator

• Lu, Ye
• Farhat, Assaad T
• Ivase, Jighjigh Tersoo
• Snapp, Alan Thomas

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030113-141835

Advisor

• Demetriou, Michael A.

Year

• 2013

Center

• Goddard Space Flight Center Project Center - MQP

Date created

• 2013-03-01

Location

• Greenbelt

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Aerospace Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright