Development of Attitude Control System on RCM3400 microcontroller for Nano-satellite applications

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a nano-satellite attitude control system (ACS) which employ a Kalman filter based controller and a simple adaptive predictive fuzzy logic controller (APFLC) for a 1, 2 and 3 axis orientation using RCM3400 microcontroller. This paper presents the performance comparison of the APFLC and Kalman filter based controller implemented in the hardware. The physical interface module, configuration with several key features, communication protocol and data handling for the micro-controller are also described.