Authors

Kenji FUJIMOTO, Tomoya TAKEUCHI, Yuki MATSUMOTO

Abstract

A quaternion representation is often used to describe the attitude of a spacecraft because it does not have any singular points. However, it becomes difficult to control the attitude described by a quaternion since a quaternion has four parameters despite that the attitude has only three degrees of freedom. In this paper, we employ the concept of port-Hamiltonian modeling to control systems with quaternions to introduce a general nonlinear control system synthesis method in aerospace engineering. It is also shown that the error quaternions are also naturally described by the port-Hamiltonian framework. Furthermore, the additional design parameter achieved by the proposed method is utilized for obstacle avoidance control. A numerical example exhibits the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Citation

  • Journal: TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: ists30
  • Pages: Pd_1–Pd_6
  • Publisher: Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
  • DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.pd_1

BibTeX

@article{FUJIMOTO_2016,
  title={{On Port-Hamiltonian Modeling and Control of Systems with Quaternions}},
  volume={14},
  ISSN={1884-0485},
  DOI={10.2322/tastj.14.pd_1},
  number={ists30},
  journal={TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN},
  publisher={Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences},
  author={FUJIMOTO, Kenji and TAKEUCHI, Tomoya and MATSUMOTO, Yuki},
  year={2016},
  pages={Pd_1-Pd_6}
}

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