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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2013.41.4.327

Design of Solar Tracking CanSat  

Jung, In-Jee (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Moon, Ji-Hwan (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Min-Soo (Department of Electronic Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Lim, Byoung-Duk (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.41, no.4, 2013 , pp. 327-334 More about this Journal
Abstract
In August 2012 the first CanSat competition was hosted by the Satellite Research Center of KAIST under auspice of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The present authors team won the first prize in the university session. In this paper the overall procedure of the CanSat project presented from the conceptual design stage to the final launch test. As the compulsory mission CanSat should send GPS data and attitude information to the ground station which in practice was performed via Bluetooth channel. In addition our CanSat is designed to trace the sun for the solar panels supplying electric power of satellite. IMU and servo motors are used for the attitude control in order that the solar sensor of the CanSat is always direct towards the sun. Launching of CanSat was simulated by dropping from a balloon at the height of around 150m via parachute. Launching test results showed that the attitude control of the CanSat and its solar sensing function were successful.
Keywords
CanSat; Solar Tracking; Conceptual design; GPS; IMU;
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