Volume 20, Issue 3 No AccessNew Penalty Functions and Optimal Control Formulation for Spacecraft Attitude Control ProblemsHanspeter Schaub, John L. Junkins and Rush D. RobinettHanspeter Schaub Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843Search for more papers by this author, John L. Junkins Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843Search for more papers by this author and Rush D. Robinett Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/2.4093SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byA distributed predefined-time attitude coordination control scheme for multiple rigid spacecraftAerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 133Introduction22 October 2023Orientation and Kinematics of Rotation: Quaternionic and Four-Dimensional Skew-Symmetric Operators, Equations, and Algorithms27 March 2023 | Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 57, No. 8Fixed-time attitude cooperative fault-tolerant control with prescribed performance for heterogeneous multiple satelliteAerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 128Observer-based fault tolerant delayed controlDistributed fixed-time attitude coordinated tracking for multiple rigid spacecraft via a novel integral sliding mode approachJournal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 357, No. 14Derivation of All Attitude Error Governing Equations for Attitude Filtering and Control28 October 2019 | Sensors, Vol. 19, No. 21An Event-Triggered Robust Attitude Control of Flexible Spacecraft With Modified Rodrigues Parameters Under Limited CommunicationIEEE Access, Vol. 7Robust Attitude Control Using a Double-Gimbal Variable-Speed Control Moment GyroscopeTakahiro Sasaki, Takashi Shimomura and Hanspeter Schaub19 August 2018 | Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 55, No. 5Observer-Based Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control for Spacecraft with Input DelayChuang Liu, George Vukovich, Zhaowei Sun and Keke Shi17 July 2018 | Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 9Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems, Fourth EditionHanspeter Schaub and John L. 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Junkins 23 May 2012 | Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 20, No. 6 What's Popular Volume 20, Number 3May 1997 Crossmark TopicsAerospace SciencesAstrodynamicsAstronauticsAttitude ControlControl TheoryGuidance, Navigation, and Control SystemsOptimal Control TheorySpacecraft Attitude Control KeywordsTransversality ConditionSpacecraft Attitude ControlEuler AnglesSteepest Descent MethodKinematic AnalysisQuaternionsPDF Published online23 May 2012