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Course: 2024/2025

Attitude dynamics and Guidance Navigation and Control

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Master in Space Engineering (Plan: 479 - Estudio: 360)

EPI

Coordinating teacher: MARCOS ESTEBAN, ANDRES

Department assigned to the subject: Aerospace Engineering Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Undergraduate course in control

Objectives

The objectives of this course are to learn about the Attitude, Orbit, and Control (AOCS) system on spacecraft. This includes its definition, requirements, components (actuators and sensors), attitude/orbit characterization and perturbations (kinetic and dynamic), navigation, orbit and attitude determination, determination techniques (Kalman filter) and control.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

Attitude dynamics and Guidance Navigation and Control. The program of the subject includes: 1. Introduction. AOCS/CNG Subsystem Requirements and Development 2. Kinematics and Dynamics of 6-DOF Motion 3. Sensors & Actuators 4. Navigation and Orbit Determination 5. Attitude Determination 6. Estimation Theory, Probability, Stochasticity, and the Kalman Filter 7. Control Theory 8. Simulation

Learning activities and methodology

Theory sessions in master classes Problem sessions in reduced groups Personal and group work

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 25
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 75

End-of-term exam (25%)
Continuous evaluation (75% = 25% quiz & 50% assignment)

In order to pass the subject, two requirements need to be met:

1) to have a MINIMUM mark of 4.0/10 in the end-of-term exam;
2) to have a minimum  overall mark of 5.0/10 (weighing 25% the end-of-term exam mark and 75% the mark of the continuous evaluation).

In this subject, students must not use artificial intelligence tools to carry out the work or exercises proposed by the teacher. In the event that the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for the partial implementation of Law 3/2022, of 24 February, will apply. of university coexistence.

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.