The paper adopts the energy shaping method to rotational motion control of a spacecraft. The configuration manifold considered in this paper is the 3-sphere. The quaternion and its conjugate momentum are used for global representation of motion in the canonical form. The design algorithm presented is validated for three typical attitude control objectives: stabilization in an inertial coordinate system, slew maneuver with obstacle avoidance, and active vibration damping for a low Earth orbit spacecraft
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Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on
(Volume:5
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Date of Conference: 2001