MagControlTwoAxis:

Path: SC/MagneticControl

% Two axis magnetic control dipole
 Computes the dipole vector needed to produce a torque t given the magnetic
 field b. This minimizes the weighted sum of the following cost functional:

   J = (t + Cross(b,m))'(t + Cross(b,m)) + m'm

 Only two elements of t can be constrained. These axes are selected
 using the vector a. The other component of t will be uncontrolled. Any time
 the components of b corresponding to the constrained components of t are
 aligned this algorithm will demand very large dipoles.

 If b is not entered it computes the magnetic field for an orbit 
 whose radius is 7000 km and inclination is 28.4 deg. The default t is
 [1e-5;1e-5] and the default a is [1;2]. The demo is run by typing:

   MagControlTwoAxis

 The dipole results are in ATM^2.
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   Form:
   [m, e] = MagControlTwoAxis( t, b, a )
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   Inputs
   ------
   t               (2,1)   Torque
   b               (3,:)   Magnetic field vector in the torque frame
   a               (2,1)   Axes corresponding to the values in t

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   Outputs
   -------
   m               (3,:)   Magnetic dipole vector needed
   e               (3,:)   Torque error

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Children:

AerospaceUtils: Coord/QLVLH
SC: BasicOrbit/RVFromKepler
SC: Environs/BDipole
Common: Graphics/Plot2D
Common: Quaternion/QForm
Common: Time/JD2000
Math: Linear/Skew

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