Advances in Lipobiology, Volume 2 (Advances in Lipobiology)

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Lipobiology (Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology)

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Used increasingly in telecommunications, scientific research, surveillance, and meteorology, satellites rely heavily on complex onboard control systems. This book explains the basic theory of spacecraft dynamics and control and the practical aspects of controlling a satellite. The emphasis is on analyzing and solving real-world engineering problems. Among the topics covered are orbital dynamics, attitude dynamics, gravity gradient stabilization, single and dual spin stabilization, attitude maneuvers, attitude stabilization, and structural dynamics and liquid sloshing.

Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control (Aiaa Education Series)

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Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control (Aiaa Education Series)
Bong Wie
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Elements of Spacecraft Design (Aiaa Education Series)

ASIN: 1563472619

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Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control provides a solid foundation in dynamic modeling, analysis, and control of space vehicles. More than 200 figures, photographs, and tables are featured in detailed sections covering the fundamentals of controlling orbital, attitude, and structural motions of space vehicles.

The textbook highlights a range of orbital maneuvering and control problems: orbital transfer, rendezvous, and halo orbit determination and control. Rotational maneuvering and attitude control problems of space vehicles under the influence of reaction jet firings, internal energy dissipation, or momentum transfer via reaction wheels and control moment gyros are treated in detail. The textbook also highlights the analysis and design of attitude control systems in the presence of structural flexibility and/or propellant sloshing. At the end of each chapter, Dr. Wie includes a helpful list of references for graduate students and working professionals studying spacecraft dynamics and control. A bibliography of more than 350 additional references in the field of spacecraft guidance, control, and dynamics is also provided at the end of the book.

Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control requires a thorough knowledge of vector and matrix algebra, calculus, ordinary differential equations, engineering mechanics, and linear system dynamics and control. The first two chapters provide a summary of such necessary background material. Since some problems may require the use of software for the analysis, control design, and numerical simulation, readers should have access to computational software (i.e., MATLAB) on a personal computer.

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The best in its area.......2006-09-21

This is a rather complete presentation of the knowledge of controls and dynamics needed to design, specify, and analyze spacecraft control sytems. No navigation or guidance is covered. Of course no reference to same is made in the title. The book is primarily a composition of basic control background including modern topics like H-infinity. The H-infinity control discussion is the most understandable out there and its limitations are spelled out clearly, perhaps for the first time. The structural dynamics and controls sections are outstanding with some novelty. Interleaving is not unique to this book, however. Bryson covers it in Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft. Quite frankly, at this point in time most of the spacecraft controller design methodologies are handbook in nature and what is most needed is a good background in the basics that extends into the actual design domain enough to be useful. Bong Wie has provided that in this book for controller design to a greater extend than any other written thus far.

A great addition to the literature.......2000-03-30

Bong Wie's "Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control" is, by far, one of the best books ever published in the AIAA Education Series. It packs a lot of info on a multitude of subjects which don't usually come together in a single book. The mathematical preliminaries and the sections on dynamics and control of flexible structures are particularly well done. (This is perhaps the first time a textbook covers the interlacing property of poles & zeros of certain transfer functions, particularly those associated with flexible structures.) In addition, the inclusion of the "H-infinity" topic the way the author did it is very good since, in general, books do not feature the subject in such a concise, objective, useful way. The same is true of the section on halo orbits, as well. Best of all, Wie's having included Kharitonov's theorem comes as a blessing, since the issue is rarely seen in non-European texts.

Unfortunately, in its present form (first edition), the book is not without its flaws. The alphabetical index should indicate explicitly where one can find subjects like the aforementioned interlacing property, as well as bang-bang-type controls. Also, a couple of topics have been omitted altogether: yo-yo devices (possibly deemed too simple) and the more advanced issues pertaining to the extremely important time-varying nonlinear systems (e.g.: time-varying eigenvalues). This is arguably OK, as this last subject, requiring a lot of preliminary material on operator theory, might be considered too advanced for a non-systems book, especially one in the Education Series.

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Dont buy it here!.......2006-09-07

Do not buy this book. You pay $113 for a damn paperback book! What the hell!

Space craft Dynamics.......2000-11-28

I think the author has omited some relations between the equations he has obtaind. He'd better to expand relations more.

Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics (Dover Books on Engineering)

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The Bible on Attitude Dynamics: A Dynamicist from MA
Still One of the Best Books on the Subject

Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics (Dover Books on Engineering)
Peter C. Hughes
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From its roots in classical mechanics and reliance on stability theory to the evolution of practical stabilization ideas, this volume covers environmental torques encountered in space; energy dissipation; motion equations for four archetypical systems; orientation parameters; illustrations of key concepts with on-orbit flight data; and typical engineering hardware. 1986 edition.

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The Bible on Attitude Dynamics: A Dynamicist from MA.......2006-09-21

This is an excellent book and the Bible for spacecraft attitude dynamics. The book uses the so-called vectrices to represent reference frames. After getting used to the notation, it is very convenient tool for book keeping multiple reference frames. Although the idea is not original and appears in Wittenburg's Dynamics of System of Rigid Bodies, the author shows many nice and helpful relations in vectices algebra and uses it elegantly to derive equations of motion. In addition to the comprehensive coverage of attitude dynamics of all kind of satellite configurations, the book gives stand alone reviews of other topics:
- Representations of attitude transformation including quaternions.
- Linear (and some non-linear) stability analysis including Floquet theory.
- Analysis of disturbances with a nice derivation of the general gravitational torque between spacecraft and other finite bodies. Rigorous treatment of torque due to free molecular flow.
- Equations of motion for multi-body, orbital-attitude coupling (both ways), the principle of quassi-velocities, energy methods for stability analysis and much more.
In general, this book is analytically beautiful, rigorous, typos free and a fun reading.

For farther reading, I recommend Beletskii's book on Motion of an Artificial Satellite for perturbation analysis of slightly non-linear attitude dynamics and Bong Wie's book on Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control that is particularly strong on quaternion control.
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Still One of the Best Books on the Subject.......2005-02-09

Often ignored, the ability to control just where a spacecraft is pointed is absolutely critical to space flight. Without such controls, the Hubble telescope doesn't point in the right direction. The spy satellites don't point at the ground and the re-entry rockets don't point you in the right direction to come home.

The first Explorer and Sputnik experiences proved that what we thought we knew about the classical analysis of Newton and others were wrong, or at least incomplete. The realities of space flight intruded into the carefully developed mathematics of classical mechanics.

This book reflects the lessons learned and gives a rigorous mathematical introduction to the dynamics of spacecraft control. This is an augmented reprint of the original edition published in 1986.

Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (Orbit, a Foundation Series)

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Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (Orbit, a Foundation Series)
Vladimir A. Chobotov
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Presented here are the basic concepts, methods, and mathematical developments which are necessary to understand spacecraft attitude dynamics and control. This book is a comprehensive and self-contained treatment with emphasis on the practical aspects of the subject. It is a "road map" to the field of spacecraft dynamics and control, which contains all essential elements of kinematics, rigid body dynamics, linear control theory, environmental effects, and the theory of the stability of motion, all in a single volume. The book is based on the author's more than thirty years of industrial and teaching experience and can be used as a textbook in aerospace engineering courses at either the senior or the first-year graduate school level.

Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space, C

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Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space, C
C. L. Kirk , Colin L. Kirk , Bedfordshire) College of Aeronautics (Cranfield , and P. C. Hughes
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Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space III

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Gyrodynamics; Euromech 38 Colloquium, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 3-5 September, 1973

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Third International Conference on Adaptive Structures

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Third International Conference on Adaptive Structures
Ben K. Wada
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4th Annual NASA SCOLE Workshop (SuDoc NAS 1.15:101503)

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4th Annual NASA SCOLE Workshop (SuDoc NAS 1.15:101503)
NASA
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