Overview

ADCS - Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control Systems, provides a complete introduction to spacecraft control. The book covers all elements of attitude control system design including kinematics, dynamics, orbits, disturbances, actuators, sensors and mission operations. Essential hardware details are provided for star cameras, reaction wheels, sun sensors and other key components. The book is organized with the chapters in order of how to design a control system for a spacecraft. Background material such as on control theory, actuator and sensor details and probability and statistics are located in appendices. Examples are drawn from the author's 40 years of industrial experience with spacecraft such as GGS, GPS IIR, Mars Observer and commercial communications satellites. The book includes historical background and real-life examples. Numerous complete spacecraft control system designs are presented including systems specifically for CubeSats and nano-satellites. Cutting edge material in machine learning is also included. Features critical details on hardware and the space environment Combines theory and ready to implement practical algorithms Includes MATLAB code for all of the examples All plots and figures are generated with the included code