• A Review and Gap Analysis of Exploiting Aerodynamic Forces as a Means to Control Satellite Formation Flight 

      Traub, Constantin; Romano, F.; Binder, Tilman; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Rodríguez Donaire, Silvia; Sureda Anfres, Miquel (2018)
      Text en actes de congrés
      Accés obert
      Using several small, unconnected satellites flying in formation rather than a single monolithic satellite has many advantages. As an example, separate optical systems can be combined to function as a single larger (synthetic) ...
    • Design of a thruster-assisted control for 1U CubeSat orbit maintenance and drag mitigation with NASA 42 

      Roldan Vilardell, David (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-12)
      Treball Final de Grau
      Accés obert
      In the last ten years, CubeSats have gained popularity in the context of spatial missions in low Earth orbits (LEO). They have a simple construction and complexity and a great variety of possibilities at an affordable cost. ...
    • Implementació del subsistema de control d’actitud 3D amb magnetopars d’un Cubesat 

      Casas Riera, Pere (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-18)
      Treball Final de Grau
      Accés obert
      En aquesta tesi es busca dissenyar una simulació i sistema de control de l'actitud d’un CubeSat 3U, en òrbita terrestre baixa amb un sistema de magnetopars .El projecte, es basa en un treball anterior de Carlos Méndez ...
    • Implementation and validation of the attitude and determination control system of a pico-satellite 

      Recarey Liste, Yago (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-09-14)
      Treball Final de Grau
      Accés obert
      Realitzat a/amb:   NanoSat Lab
      This end-of-degree project focuses on the software development of a pico-satellite Attitude Determination and Control System, using MATLAB, as well as its subsequent integration in C. The software carried out will be ...
    • Natural configurations for formation flying around triangular libration points for the elliptic and the bicircular problem in the earth-moon system 

      Salazar, Francisco; Winter, O. C.; Macau, E.E.N.; Masdemont Soler, Josep; Gómez Muntané, Gerard (2014)
      Text en actes de congrés
      Accés obert
      The concept of Satellite Formation Flying (SFF) means to have two or more satellites in orbit such that their relative positions remain constant or obeying a certain dynamical configuration along the trajectory. This ...
    • Natural formations at the Earth-Moon triangular point in perturbed restricted problems 

      Salazar, Francisco; Winter, O. C.; Macau, E.E.N.; Masdemont Soler, Josep; Gómez Muntané, Gerard (2015-07-01)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Previous studies for small formation flying dynamics about triangular libration points have determined the existence of regions of zero and Minimum Relative Radial Acceleration with respect to the nominal trajectory, that ...
    • Project for improvements in the attitude control of a cubesat 

      Salamat, Imane (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-02-02)
      Treball Final de Grau
      Accés obert
      This project is a continuation of the worl of previous students in their bachelor thesis. A two-dimensional attitude control algorithm for a CubeSat is created in this paper, which builds on past work by other planners. ...
    • Project of 1DoF attitude control system for 1U cubesat 

      Sanz, Celia, Alexia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-21)
      Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
      Accés obert
      The ability to orient oneself in space is one of the most difficult functions to control, particularly for nanosatellites such as CubeSats. In this project, an Arduino code has been developed to control the orientation of ...
    • Study of attitude control of a 1U Cubesat 

      Sharique, Syed Abdul Hadi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10)
      Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
      Accés restringit per decisió de l'autor
      In the thesis the analysis and comparison of different Degrees of freedom effecting a CubeSat using different methods of simulink block parameters. A nonlinear mathematical model of spacecraft dynamics was presented. A ...