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Design on Algorithm of Power Control Unit for Charging Satellite Battery  

Park, JeongEon (한국항공우주연구원 위성기술연구단 위성전자팀)
Lee, Byoung-Hee (한국항공우주연구원 위성기술연구단 위성전자팀)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.12, no.4, 2017 , pp. 95-99 More about this Journal
Abstract
The lifetime of a battery that supplies all the power required by a satellite in the eclipse is directly related to the lifetime of the satellite. Because the lifetime of the battery is influenced by the charging method of the battery, the power control unit that controls the charging of the battery should be designed in consideration of battery life. The battery charging is performed by controlling the charge current in the power control unit generated from the solar cell in the daytime. In order to prevent overcharge of the battery and for considering frequency of eclipse in each season, parameters related battery charging should be designed differently according to the season and to prevent over-current charging and over-voltage charging during charging, charge current is controlled by monitoring battery charge / discharge status, charge current amount, battery voltage, battery capacity, battery temperature and battery cell voltage. In satellite, tapering method is used to control charge current by reflecting each condition. In this paper, design battery charging algorithm of satellite power control unit using tapering charging method. convert the designed algorithm into a code that can be uploaded to satellites and verify the operation through testing in the established satellite environment.
Keywords
Satellite; Battery; PCU(Power Control Unit); Charging Algorithm; Tapering; Equinox; Solstice;
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