Space Engineering Podcast 1 | Brian Douglas, Spacecraft Engineering, ADCS, Controls Systems

Brian Douglas is a controls engineer, previously working for Boeing and Planetary Resources. He now has his own company working as a consultant for various companies including MathWorks (the makers of MATLAB and Simulink, making videos for their YouTube channel). His YouTube channel has over 215,000 subscribers, where he has countless videos on controls systems: https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures Link to episode on SimpleCast: https://space-engineering-podcast.simplecast.com/ Link to episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01GcglyOT2bw4moswvDg4O Link to episode on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9TelZzS3lDTQ?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwjggN2CxZTuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQDg I'll be posting short clips from this conversation and our first conversation throughout the next ~2 weeks, so be sure to subscribe and hit the bell button to stay up to date! Link to the Space Engineering Podcast playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOIRBaljOV8gYALpxUJywrHZuvZ9NFpz0 Link to Brian Douglas' clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOIRBaljOV8hbckO-L1vaU6cT-EdgF8xZ OUTLINE: 0:00 | Introduction / List of Topics 1:12 | Leaving Boeing to join Planetary Resources 5:44 | Planetary Resources early days / ADCS requirements 16:56 | ADCS computers architecture 21:38 | Attitude control actuators 25:56 | Attitude determination sensors (star trackers, magnetometers) 32:50 | Kalman filters 38:57 | Spacecraft flight computers 42:56 | Quaternions and Euler Angles in ADCS 51:28 | Hardware in the loop (HWITL) simulations 1:02:56 | Magnetic fields, magnetometers, calibrations 1:09:24 | Designing control laws 1:15:26 | Spacecraft modes (activation, safe) 1:20:59 | Orbit determination (GPS, tracking stations), TLEs 1:28:44 | Monte Carlo simulations 1:35:28 | MATLAB, Simulink, Autocode, embedded software 1:44:32 | Why Brian decided to start making videos 1:47:37 | Outro #spaceengineringpodcast #spaceengineering #aerospaceengineering