Large flexible spacecraft are required for several planned space missions. A proposal that
active feedback control be employed to reduce the effects of structural bending and vibration …

The design of control systems for flexible spacecraft continues to be an important problem in
current and future space missions. Crucial to successful controller design is accurate …

This dissertation considers problems of dynamics and control of structural systems
characterized by a high degree of flexibility. Structural flexibility typically arises in …

The control of large space structures has attracted much attention recently with the advent of
the Space Transportion System (STS) in the 1980s and hence the real possiblity of erecting …

This text is the outgrowth of our work over the past decade on the interface of the two
traditional disciplines: Engineering Mechanics and Control Engineering. Our work has been …

THE control of large flexible spacecraft has become an active research and development
topic, as demonstrated by a recent survey. l Adaptive control of distributed parameter …

Large flexible spacecraft represent highly complex distributed-parameter systems. In theory,
a distributed-parameter system possesses an infinite number of degrees of freedom. For …

Foreword. This paper was written in October 1986 and revised in final form in August 1987.
So it is more than two years old. It represents the situation at that time. Many important …

Stabilization and performance of the dynamics of most modern spacecraft is to be achieved
by the introduction of onboard automatic control, involving a careful choice of sensors …

ONE of the most intensely studied subjects in control system design has been the control of
large flexible space structures. Industry, government, and universities have combined efforts …