Spacecraft Modeling, Attitude Determination, and Control: Quaternion-Based Approach, Second edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032952529)

Yaguang Yang holds B.S. (1982) and M.S. (1985) degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. From 1985 to 1990, he was a lecturer at Zhejiang University in China. In 1996 he received a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. Since then, he has designed and implemented control systems at UKIRT, CIENA, ITT, and Orbital Sciences Corporation; he has performed theoretical and applied research and published more than 50 papers in controls and optimizations, developed and implemented algorithms in computer codes, and applied to engineering problems, and he has managed nuclear power plant instrument and control research projects at US NRC. He is currently a system engineer with the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, where he has worked on several space projects, including The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH), The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR), and is the Principal Investigator (PI) of an applied research project (Model-based optimal engineering design and its application to the advanced trajectory design problem).