Automatic Control Systems
SCA COMET deals with automatic control systems of :
- space vehicles (satellites, launchers, balloons, robotics),
- their subsystems (actuators, sensors, pointing systems, optical payloads, antennas, etc),
- and fleet of space vehicles (formation flying applications),
Four axes are explored :
Algorithms and methodology
- modelling of complex dynamic systems,
- analysis, control law synthesis and filtering,
- system identification,
- deterministic and random signal processing,
- optimisation techniques,
- simulation (software, hardware, hybrid) and validation,
- control laws implementation (autocoding),
- automatic control software testing.
Guidance Navigation and Control systems (GNC)
- controlled systems performances (trade-offs, worst case analysis),
- controlled systems architecture,
- fault detection isolation and recovery,
- other systems GNC (UAV, aeronautics, robotics, etc).
Technology
- new actuators and sensors for GNC applications
Lessons learned from flight
- in flight architecture and performances of GNC systems