Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control (Aiaa Education Series)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 661 pages
• Published by: AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast June 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1563472619
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1563472619
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Description
Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control provides a solid foundation in dynamic modeling, analysis, and control of space vehicles. More than 200 figures, photographs, and tables are featured in detailed sections covering the basics of controlling orbital, attitude, and structural motions of space vehicles.

The textbook highlights a range of orbital maneuvering and control problems: orbital transfer, rendezvous, and halo orbit determination and control. Rotational maneuvering and attitude control problems of space vehicles under the influence of reaction jet firings, internal energy dissipation, or momentum transfer via reaction wheels and control moment gyros are treated in detail. The textbook also highlights the analysis and design of attitude control systems in the presence of structural flexibility and/or propellant sloshing. At the end of each chapter, Dr. Wie includes a helpful list of references for graduate students and working professionals studying spacecraft dynamics and control. A bibliography of more than 350 additional references in the field of spacecraft guidance, control, and dynamics is also provided at the end of the book.

Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control requires a thorough knowledge of vector and matrix algebra, calculus, ordinary differential equations, engineering mechanics, and linear system dynamics and control. The first two chapters provide a summary of such necessary background material. Since some problems may require the use of software for the analysis, control design, and numerical simulation, readers should have access to computational software (i.e., MATLAB) on a personal computer.

About The Author
Bong Wie, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, received his B.S. (1975) degree in aerospace engineering from Seoul National University and his M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. For four years after graduating from Stanford, Dr. Wie worked in the private sector as a control systems engineer for the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation in Palo Alto, Calif., but returned to academia in 1985 as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1989, he moved to Arizona State University as an associate professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department before accepting a full professorship in 1992. He has been a principal investigator of numerous research projects funded by NASA including the NASA Control-Structure Interaction Phase I Guest Investigator program from 1988 to 1991. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics (1986-1991) and the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences (1993-1995). He has consulted for a number of aerospace corporations, and traveled to Korea and Japan for visiting professorships. Dr. Wie is an associate fellow of AIAA.

Reader Reviews
This is a rather complete presentation of the knowledge of controls and dynamics needed to design, specify, and analyze spacecraft control sytems. No navigation or guidance is covered. Of course no reference to same is made in the title. The book is primarily a composition of basic control background including modern topics like H-infinity. The H-infinity control discussion is the most understandable out there and its limitations are spelled out clearly, perhaps for the first time. The structural dynamics and controls sections are outstanding with some novelty. Interleaving is not unique to this book, however. Bryson covers it in Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft. Quite frankly, at this point in time most of the spacecraft controller design methodologies are handbook in nature and what is most needed is a good background in the basics that extends into the actual design domain enough to be useful. Bong Wie has provided that in this book for controller design to a greater extend than any other written thus far.