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 …

Nested and simultaneous solution strategies for general combined plant and control design problems

DR Herber, JT Allison - Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, general combined plant and control design or co-design problems are
examined. The previous work in co-design theory imposed restrictions on the type of …

Self-deployable, self-stiffening, and retractable origami-based arrays for spacecraft

NA Pehrson, DC Ames, SP Smith, SP Magleby, M Arya - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Spacecraft with large arrays sometimes have deployed sizes that are much larger than the
launch volumes; in this case, deployable arrays are used. Several methods exist for stowing …

World's first spaceflight on-orbit demonstration of a flexible solar array system based on shape memory polymer composites

X Lan, LW Liu, FH Zhang, ZX Liu, LL Wang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
With a 10% reversible compressive strain in more than 10 deformation cycles, the shape
memory polymer composites (SMPCs) could be used for deployable structure and releasing …

Smart solar array consisting of shape-memory releasing mechanisms and deployable hinges

X Lan, L Liu, C Pan, F Li, Z Liu, G Hou, J Sun, W Dai… - Aiaa Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
Based on our previous successful material-level verification of a shape-memory polymer
composite (SMPC) on the SJ-17 geostationary satellite on a geostationary orbit since …

Towards a fair comparison between the nested and simultaneous control co-design methods using an active suspension case study

AK Sundarrajan, DR Herber - 2021 American Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper tackles perhaps the two most common control co-design coordination strategies:
simultaneous analysis and design and the nested control problem formulation. Many …

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 …

Control co-design optimization of spacecraft trajectory and system for interplanetary missions

GW Harris, P He, OO Abdelkhalik - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper develops a control co-design (CCD) framework to simultaneously optimize the
spacecraft's trajectory and onboard system (rocket engine) and quantify its benefit. An open …

A problem class with combined architecture, plant, and control design applied to vehicle suspensions

DR Herber, JT Allison - Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Here we describe a problem class with combined architecture, plant, and control design for
dynamic engineering systems. The design problem class is characterized by architectures …

Robust monolithic versus distributed control/structure co-optimization of flexible space systems in presence of parametric uncertainties

F Sanfedino, D Alazard, A Kiley, M Watt… - Structural and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents an end-to-end framework for robust structure/control optimization of an
industrial benchmark. When dealing with space structures, a reduction of the spacecraft …