Duration
26h Th, 26h Pr
Number of credits
| Master of Science (MSc) in Aerospace Engineering | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is organised as follows: - Introduction to orbit dynamics - Orbital maneuvers - Attitude kinematics and dynamics - Spacecraft stabilisation - Spacecraft attitude control - Attitude determination and control hardware
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course provides the basic knowledge on the angular motion of a rigid satellite, on sensors and algorithms for attitude determination, on actuators and attitude control laws.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The pre-requisite are presented within each program
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Exercises, numerical simulations, and laboratories.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face in English
Recommended or required readings
[1] Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach, Marcel J. Sidi, Cambridge University Press (1997)
[2] Spacecraft attitude determination and control, James Wertz, Kluwe Academic Publisher (1978)
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
This year, due to the coronavirus, the assessment of this course will be based on an oral exam. We will use Black Board Collaborate platform. The link to enter in the virstual classroom will be sent in due time.
The exam will consist of two parts:
Part 1 (theory): you will be asked to reply to one question from the list of 27 questions provided. Please send by email the .pdf file corresponding to the reply to that specific question to Pablo Alarcon (palarcon@uliege.be ). Then, share your screen, and go through your document for presenting how you addressed the question. We may ask you some additional short questions for testing your level of understanding.
Part 2 (exercise): you will be assigned to work on one of the exercises covered during the exercise sessions. Still with your screen shared, open that script, run it and present the results. We will further ask you to explain some parts of the script, and ask you to give a sound interpretation of the results obtained after changing some of the parameters.
All practical details are posted in the ecampus.
Contacts
Prof. Christophe Collette
Mobile: 0495 34 59 66
Email: Christophe.Collette@uliege.be
Skype: Christophe.collette1