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Intelligent Control and Automation, 2013, 4, 313-326 /10.4236/ica.2013.43037 Published Online August 2013 (/journal/ica) Attitude Control of a Flexible Satellite by Using Robust Control Design Methods Reza Mohsenipour , Hossein Nemati , Mehrzad Nasirian , Abdolreza Kashani Nia 1 2 1 1 1 Malekashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran East Tehran (QiamDasht) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2 Email: mohsenipour.r@, c.nemati@, nasirian@mut.ac.ir, akashaninia@aut.ac.ir Received April 1, 2013; revised May 1, 2013; accepted May 8, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Reza Mohsenipour et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Li- cense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT The increase of satellite’s dimensions has caused flexibility and formation of uncertainty in their model. This is because of space missions being more complex and using light moving structures in satellites. Satellites are also encountered with various circumferential disturbance torques. This uncertainty in model and disturbance torques will cause undesir- able performance of satellites’ attitude control system. So, for attitude control of these satellites, those methods should be used which are robust to uncertainty of the plant’s model and can reject the effects of disturbances and the measure- ment noise. One of these methods is the robust control design method. But, because of pole’s place of these satellite’s dynamics equations, the designing procedure of robust control will face difficulties. In this paper, by using an internal feedback as a novel idea, the satellite’s dynamics equations are changed in such a way that the poles will be placed in proper locations.