Spacecraft dynamics and control: the embedded model control approach

Provides a uniform way of approaching space engineering control problems from the standpoint of model-based control, using state equations as the key dynamic model for simulation, design and implementation.

The book introduces model-based control design methodology for spacecraft attitude and orbit control.

It then covers model-based estimation and control algorithm design, using spacecraft and environment dynamics as the core of the implemented control algorithms-referred to as the embedded (or internal) model.

The book also presents two appendices, in which the state equation machinery is fully exploited and introduced.