Advances in spacecraft micro-vibration suppression methods

X Jiao, J Zhang, W Li, Y Wang, W Ma, Y Zhao - Progress in Aerospace …, 2023 - Elsevier
The micro-vibration generated by various disturbance sources on spacecraft seriously
affects the observation and imaging accuracy. Thus, some measures must be taken to …

Advances in combined architecture, plant, and control design

DR Herber - 2017 - ideals.illinois.edu
The advancement of many engineering systems relies on novel design methodologies,
design formulations, design representations, and other advancements. In this dissertation …

Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for spacecraft precision pointing and jitter reduction

CM Chilan, DR Herber, YK Nakka, SJ Chung… - AIAA journal, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
This work presents a novel spacecraft attitude control architecture using strain-actuated
solar arrays that does not require the use of conventional attitude control hardware. A strain …

Nonlinear attitude control of a spacecraft with distributed actuation of solar arrays

YK Nakka, SJ Chung, JT Allison, JB Aldrich… - Journal of Guidance …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a novel control architecture and algorithm for precision attitude control
of a one-degree-of-freedom dynamic model of a spacecraft. To achieve a parametric model …

Attitude control and on-orbit performance evaluation of spacecraft with variable shape function

K Watanabe, H Kobayashi, Y Amaki, T Chujo… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
The variable shape function enables attitude and orbit control by actively changing the
shape of a spacecraft on orbit. In order to demonstrate this function on orbit, we developed …

Strain-actuated solar arrays for spacecraft attitude control assisted by viscoelastic dam**

V Yong Hoon Lee - 13th World Congress of Structural and …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
This article presents a utilization of viscoelastic dam** to reduce control system complexity
for strain-actuated solar array (SASA) based spacecraft attitude control systems (ACSs) …

[BOEK][B] Spacecraft motion planning and control under probabilistic uncertainty for coordinated inspection and safe learning

YK Nakka - 2021 - search.proquest.com
During a spacecraft mission design process, engineers often balance the following three
criteria: science return, optimality in performance, and safety. Given a science criterion …

SPOAC and Hinge Integrated MSAC: Non-holonomic Attitude Control Systems for Spacecraft

A Bataleblu, EF Bravo, JT Allison - 2022 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
Two novel spacecraft attitude control system technologies are introduced that both rely on
the same nonholonomic control trajectory concept but that utilize distinct system …

Reducing jitter during large slews using multifunctional structures for attitude control via torque analysis

Vedant, JT Allison - Proceedings of the 44th Annual American …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) comprise a class of new
attitude control systems that utilizes intelligent flexible deployable panels as attitude control …

Multifunctional Oscillating Structures for Slewing and Active Jitter Cancellation

P Haddox, JT Allison - 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) is a new attitude control system (ACS)
that imparts non-holonomic vibrations on structures to provide both active noise cancellation …