TALK    MERL Low-Thrust GEO Satellite Control talk at Stanford University

Date released: February 14, 2019

  •  TALK    MERL Low-Thrust GEO Satellite Control talk at Stanford University
  • Date & Time:

    Thursday, February 14, 2019; 1:30 -3:00 PM

  • Abstract:

    Avishai Weiss from MERL's Control and Dynamical Systems group will give a talk at Stanford's Aeronautics and Astronautics department titled: "Low-Thrust GEO Satellite Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management via Model Predictive Control". Electric propulsion for satellites is much more fuel efficient than conventional methods. The talk will describe MERL's solution to the satellite control problems deriving from the low thrust provided by electric propulsion.

  • Speaker:

    Avishai Weiss
    MERL

    Avishai Weiss is a Principal Research Scientist in the Control and Dynamical Systems group at MERL, Cambridge, MA. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 2013 from the University of Michigan and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering (2008) and Aeronautics and Astronautics (2009). His main research interests and contributions are in the areas of spacecraft orbital and attitude control, constrained control, model predictive control, and time-varying systems, in which he has authored over 45 peer-reviewed papers and patents.

  • MERL Hosts:

    Stefano Di Cairano; Avishai Weiss

  • Research Area:

    Control

    •  Kalabić, U., Weiss, A., Grover, P., "Low-thrust GTO-to-GEO trajectory optimization and tracking", AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, August 2018.
      BibTeX TR2018-117 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Kalabic2018aug,
      • author = {Kalabić, Uroš and Weiss, Avishai and Grover, Piyush},
      • title = {Low-thrust GTO-to-GEO trajectory optimization and tracking},
      • booktitle = {AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference},
      • year = 2018,
      • month = aug,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-117}
      • }
    •  Caverly, R., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Split-Horizon MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites using Electric Propulsion", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.23919/​ACC.2018.8431329, June 2018, pp. 652-657.
      BibTeX TR2018-093 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Caverly2018jun,
      • author = {Caverly, Ryan and Di Cairano, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
      • title = {Split-Horizon MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites using Electric Propulsion},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2018,
      • pages = {652--657},
      • month = jun,
      • doi = {10.23919/ACC.2018.8431329},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-093}
      • }
    •  Caverly, R., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "On-Off Quantization of an MPC Policy for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites", European Control Conference (ECC), DOI: 10.23919/​ECC.2018.8550336, June 2018.
      BibTeX TR2018-078 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Caverly2018jun2,
      • author = {Caverly, Ryan and Di Cairano, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
      • title = {On-Off Quantization of an MPC Policy for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites},
      • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
      • year = 2018,
      • month = jun,
      • doi = {10.23919/ECC.2018.8550336},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-078}
      • }
    •  Weiss, A., Kalabić, U., Di Cairano, S., "Station keeping and momentum management of low-thrust satellites using MPC", Aerospace Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1016/​j.ast.2018.02.014, Vol. 76, pp. 229-241, May 2018.
      BibTeX TR2018-048 PDF
      • @article{Weiss2018may,
      • author = {Weiss, Avishai and Kalabić, Uroš and Di Cairano, Stefano},
      • title = {Station keeping and momentum management of low-thrust satellites using MPC},
      • journal = {Aerospace Science and Technology},
      • year = 2018,
      • volume = 76,
      • pages = {229--241},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {Elsevier},
      • doi = {10.1016/j.ast.2018.02.014},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-048}
      • }
    •  Zlotnik, D., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites using On-Off Electric Propulsion", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA.2017.8062723, August 2017.
      BibTeX TR2017-129 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Zlotnik2017aug,
      • author = {Zlotnik, David and Di Cairano, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
      • title = {MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of GEO Satellites using On-Off Electric Propulsion},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications},
      • year = 2017,
      • month = aug,
      • doi = {10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062723},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-129}
      • }
    •  Walsh, A., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of Low-Thrust Geostationary Satellites", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.1109/​ACC.2016.7526842, July 2016, pp. 7408-7413.
      BibTeX TR2016-047 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Walsh2016jul,
      • author = {Walsh, Alex and Di Cairano, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
      • title = {MPC for Coupled Station Keeping, Attitude Control, and Momentum Management of Low-Thrust Geostationary Satellites},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2016,
      • pages = {7408--7413},
      • month = jul,
      • doi = {10.1109/ACC.2016.7526842},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-047}
      • }
    •  Weiss, A., Kalabić, U., Di Cairano, S., "Model Predictive Control for Simultaneous Station Keeping and Momentum Management of Low-Thrust Spacecraft", American Control Conference (ACC), DOI: 10.1109/​ACC.2015.7171076, July 2015, pp. 2305-2310.
      BibTeX TR2015-062 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Weiss2015jul,
      • author = {Weiss, A. and Kalabić, U. and {Di Cairano}, S.},
      • title = {Model Predictive Control for Simultaneous Station Keeping and Momentum Management of Low-Thrust Spacecraft},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2015,
      • pages = {2305--2310},
      • month = jul,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ACC.2015.7171076},
      • isbn = {978-1-4799-8685-9},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-062}
      • }