This paper deals with the design of robust control strategies to govern the position and attitude of a Darwin-type spacecraft with large flexible appendages. The satellite is one of the flyers of a multiple spacecraft constellation for a future ESA mission. It presents a high order multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) model with large uncertainty and loop interactions introduced by the flexible modes of the low-stiffness appendages. The scientific objectives of the satellite require very demanding control specifications for position and attitude accuracy, high disturbance rejection, loop-coupling attenuation, and low controller order. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of a sequential nondiagonal MIMO quantitative feedback theory (QFT) strategy controlling the Darwin spacecraft and compares the results with -infinity and sequential diagonal MIMO QFT designs.
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