Attitude Control of Spider-type Multiple-rotor Rigid Bodies Systems.

This paper sets out to develop a new multiple-rotor system which can be used for attitude control of spacecraft. Unlike typical attitude control devices the new multirotor system has no disadvantages of reaction wheels, on the contrary, it possesses the advantages of a control moment gyroscope. The paper describes a new method of attitude reorientation of spacecraft with the help of the multirotor system. New multirotor system contains a lot of rotor-equipped rays, so it was called a "Rotor-type Spider" or a "Rotor-type Hedgehog". These systems allow using spinups and captures of conjugate rotors to perform compound attitude motion of spacecraft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]