Here you will find simulations for the attitude determination and control (ADCS) of a 2-unit satellite part of the QB50 project. This work was done at Mines ParisTech during the year 2014-2015. For information about the QB50 project and our work at Mines ParisTech, the student webpage for the project is here (in french only).
Our group was divided into four teams:
- the mechanical team
- the software team
- the ground station team
- the ADCS team which I led
The goal of the ADCS team was to provide the necessary algorithms to ensure the good behavior of the satellite in orbit: i.e we had to design an observer to estimate the state of the satellite (its attitude) and a controller to control it. More information about this work can be found in our report (still in french).
Please check that you have Matlab 2014b or more recent as this code uses some functions not implemented in older version.
To run a simulation, you just need to run the "main.m" file. It might take around 15 minutes as we perform a full simulation on 20 orbits.