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Scaling inertia properties of a manipulator payload for 0-g emulation of spacecraft

Aghili, F ; Sharif University of Technology | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1177/0278364908099464
  3. Publisher: 2009
  4. Abstract:
  5. This paper presents a method to control a manipulator system grasping a rigid-body payload so that the motion of the combined system as a consequence of external applied forces is the same as any other free-floating rigid-body (with different inertial properties). This allows 0-g emulation of a scaled spacecraft prototype under the test in a 1-g laboratory environment. The controller consisting of motion feedback and force/moment feedback adjusts the motion of the test spacecraft so as to match that of the flight spacecraft, even if the latter has flexible appendages (such as solar panels) and the former is rigid. The stability of the overall system is analytically investigated, and the results show that the system remains stable provided that the inertial properties of two spacecraft are different and that an upperbound on the norm of the inertia ratio of the payload to the manipulator is respected. Important practical issues such as calibration and sensitivity analysis to sensor noise and quantization are also presented. Finally, experimental results obtained from a robotic setup for spacecraft emulation with a milli-gravity accuracy are presented
  6. Keywords:
  7. Dynamics emulation ; Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing ; Impedance control of manipulators ; Microgravity simulation ; Rigid body dynamics ; Satellite simulator ; Spacecraft attitude control system ; Spacecraft simulator ; Attitude control ; Communication satellites ; Dynamics ; Feedback ; Flight control systems ; Manipulators ; Microgravity processing ; Navigation ; Satellite simulators ; Sensitivity analysis ; Space simulators ; Spatial variables control ; Synthetic apertures ; Spacecraft
  8. Source: International Journal of Robotics Research ; Volume 28, Issue 7 , 2009 , Pages 883-894 ; 02783649 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0278364908099464