Fuel slosh dynamics refer to the complex motion of liquid propellants within spacecraft storage tanks, a phenomenon that has critical implications for mission safety and performance. The intricate ...

Abstract: For a kind of spacecraft with fuel slosh, a controller is designed to make the spacecraft system asymptotically stable, to suppress the fuel slosh while controlling the spacecraft attitude.

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Abstract: The thrust vector control problem is studied for an upper-stage rocket with fuel slosh dynamics. The sloshing propellant is modeled as a multi-mass-spring system. The coupled equations of ...

Since Robert Goddard's first launch of a liquid propellant rocket in 1926, experts have worked to perfect engine propulsion systems. As launch vehicles have grown in size, fuel and oxidizer tanks have ...