System design and attitude control experiment of a 5-DOF spacecraft simulator

Author

Naiming Qi ; Zheyao Xu ; Yukun Chen ; Guijiao Wang ; Feng Wu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Astronaut., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

876

Lastpage

880

Abstract

In this paper, a new 5-DOF spacecraft simulator which is a frictionless environment simulation platform is described. The simulator has two translational degrees of freedom and three rotational degrees of freedom. It is used for experimental validation of various spacecraft control strategies on the ground. A set of three inertial wheels and a set of sixteen cold-gas thrusters are used as primary actuators for attitude and position control. A ceiling-mounted camera is used to measure the attitude and position of the simulator. The implementation of the attitude and position control algorithms is done on-board using a PC104. Also, an automatic balancing system is developed to eliminate gravity disturbance torque. Finally, an attitude control experimental results is presented.

Keywords

actuators; aerospace propulsion; attitude control; control system synthesis; image sensors; position control; space vehicles; 5-DOF spacecraft simulator; PC104; attitude control algorithms; attitude control experiment; automatic balancing system; ceiling-mounted camera; cold-gas thrusters; frictionless environment simulation platform; gravity disturbance torque; inertial wheels; position control algorithms; primary actuators; spacecraft control strategies; system design; Attitude control; Cameras; Force; Mathematical model; Space vehicles; Torque; Wheels; Automatic mass balancing; Five degrees of freedom; Ground-Based spacecraft simulator; Spherical air-bearing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Control (ICMC), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2537-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMC.2014.7231679

Filename

7231679