Predictive Filtering for Microsatellite Control System

Predictive Filtering for Microsatellite Control Systems introduces technological design, modeling, stability analysis, predictive filtering, state estimation problem and real-time operation of spacecraft control systems in aerospace engineering. The book gives a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of envisaging, designing, implementing or experimentally exploring predictive filtering for spacecraft control systems, along with the adequate designs of integrated modeling, dynamics, state estimation, and signal processing of spacecrafts and nonlinear systems.

• Unifies existing and emerging concepts concerning predictive filtering theory, state estimation, and signal processing for spacecraft control systems
• Provides a series of latest results in, including but not limited to, nonlinear filtering, attitude determination, and state estimation towards spacecraft control systems
• Gives numerical and simulation results in each chapter in order to reflect the engineering practice and demonstrate the main focus of the developed analysis and synthesis approach
• Covers advanced topics in nonlinear filtering with aerospace application

Control engineers working on nonlinear control systems; Aerospace engineers working on spacecraft design; Mechanical engineers working on vehicle systems; Mathematicians and physicians working on complex and nonlinear systems; Postgraduate students majoring in aerospace engineering, mechatronics, control engineering, mechanical engineering, and applied mathematics. Practitioners working on spacecraft control systems; Mathematicians and physicians working on nonlinear dynamic systems; 3rd/4th-year students who are interested in knowing advances in spacecraft control systems and predictive filtering in nonlinear systems

Section A: General analysis on filtering for spacecraft control systems
1. Motivations
2. A survey on filtering for spacecraft control systems
3. Modelling of spacecraft control systems

Section B: Sigma-point predictive filtering for spacecraft control systems
4. Unscented predictive filtering theory for spacecraft control systems
5. Central difference predictive filter design for spacecrafts
6. Cubature predictive filtering theory for spacecraft control systems

Section C: Variable structure predictive filtering for spacecraft control systems
7. Variable structure predictive filter design
8. Adaptive variable structure predictive filter design
9. Higher-order variable structure predictive filter design