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A new method to identify the mass parameters of spacecraft

  • Dongbo Meng , Xia Li , Jianguo Pang and Jianxin Lu
From the journal Open Astronomy

Abstract

A two-step identification method is proposed, both the moment of inertia and the mass properties are identified. A new index parameter which is different from the commonly used condition number is first defined for designing the optimal excitation. A method is introduced based on the least squares algorithm. Detailed mathematical equations and numerical analysis are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed method can identify the mass parameters of spacecraft.

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Received: 2019-11-04
Accepted: 2020-05-27
Published Online: 2020-10-01

© 2020 Dongbo Meng et al., published by De Gruyter

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