• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07b
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• pp.490-492
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• 1998

An intention of this paper is design of a gyro actuator for the attitude control of an unstructured object. It is well known that the attitude control of an object hanging with wire is not easy using usual actuators. Even though an actuator such as a pan can be used for control of the object, it is difficult to meet a desired control objectives. We, for this reason, propose a gyro actuator for the attitude control of an unstructured object. The proposed gyro actuator consists of two motors. The first motor is responsible to spin the wheel and the second motor is used to turn the outer gimbal. Appling the torque to the second motor, which results in the turn of the outer gimbal, torque about the vertical axis will be obtained while a wheel of the gyro is spinning constantly. This torque is used to control the attitude of the object attached. The aim of this paper is of deriving the transfer function of the actuator and presenting the guideline of the design parameters such as the weight and the dimension of the wheel, motors, and the load capacity. Simulations to the mathematical model which has a state feedback control are conducted to show the validity of the proposed gyro actuator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07b
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• pp.563-565
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• 1999

In this paper, we control attitude of an unstructured object with gyro actuator. It is well known that the attitude control of an object hanging with wire is not easy using usual actuators. Even though an actuator such as a fan can be used for control of the object, it is difficult to meet a desired control objectives. We, because of these reasons, make a gyro actuator with two motors. The first motor is responsible for spinning the wheel at high speed and the second motor is used to turn the inner gimbal. Applying the torque to the second motor, which results in the turn of the outer gimbal, torque about the vertical axis will be obtained while the wheel of the gyro is spinning constantly. This torque is used to control the attitude of the object attached. Gyro actuator utilize control unstructured object such as I-beam carrying by tower crane, and isolate construction workers from the dangerous environments. We derive a relationship of wheel and its motor, find a proper capacity of wheel motor in order to rotate a wheel. Through experiments of attitude control, we show to obtain desired control objectives.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.87-97
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• 2010

A fault tolerant satellite attitude control scheme with a modified iterative learning law is proposed for dealing with actuator faults. The actuator fault is modeled to reflect the degradation of actuation effectiveness, and the solar array-induced disturbance is considered as an external disturbance. To estimate the magnitudes of the actuator fault and the external disturbance, a modified iterative learning law using only the information associated with the state error is applied. Stability analysis is performed to obtain the gain matrices of the modified iterative learning law using the Lyapunov theorem. The proposed fault tolerant control scheme is applied to the rest-to-rest maneuver of a large satellite system, and numerical simulations are performed to verify the performance of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.67-73
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• 2015

The previous limited authority system capable of implementing attitude command response type and translational command response type by operating SAS actuator has the problem of early saturation of SAS actuator since SAS actuator should compensate the mechanical linkage displacement caused by control sick movement. In this paper, a limited authority system where flight control computer receives the command from the control stick which is not connected to the mechanical linkage is described. In this system the compensation by the SAS actuator is not necessary and SAS actuator saturate later. SAS actuator saturation problem can be further relaxed by using the trim actuator. This new limited authority system is applied to BO-105 model, simulation is performed for the doublet input and pirouette maneuver is also simulated and analyzed.

• Journal of Space Technology and Applications
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.322-332
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• 2023

Satellite attitude-control actuators are equipped with a reaction wheel for three-axis attitude control. The reaction wheel rotates a motor inside the actuator to generate torque in the vector direction. When using the reaction wheel, there are restrictions on the torque values generated as the motor rotates. The torque value of the reaction wheels mounted on small satellites is approximately 10 mNm, and high values are not used. Therefore, three-axis attitude control of a small satellite is possible using a reaction wheel, but this method is not suitable for missions that require rapid attitude control at a specific time. As a technology to overcome the small torque value of the reaction wheel, the control moment gyro (CMG) is currently in wide use as a rapid attitude-control actuator in space satellites. The CMG has an internal gimbal mounted at a right angle to the rotation motor and generates a large torque value. In general, when the gimbal operates, a torque value approximately 100 times greater is generated, making it suitable for rapid posture maneuvering. Currently, we are developing a technology for mounting a controlled moment gyro on a small satellite, and here we share the development status of an 800 mNm CMG.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.183-187
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• 2012

In the present study, a feasibility study on an innovative satellite attitude control actuator is performed. The actuator is specially designed to generate the reaction torque in an arbitrary axis, so that a satellite attitude can be controlled by using itself. It consists of a spherical flywheel and electromagnets for levitation and rotation control of the ball. As the earlier study, a rotating performance test on the spherical actuator is conducted in a single rotating axis and vertical levitation condition. From the test results, it can be confirmed that the maximum speed and torque of the innovative device are 7,200rpm and 0.7Nm, respectively. Using torque-voltage characteristics of the spherical motor, an open-loop control (V/f constant control) is performed, and the test results show excellent control performance in acceleration and deceleration phases.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.459-475
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• 2018

In the field of aerospace engineering, accurate control of a spacecraft's orientation is often very important to mission success. Therefore, attitude control is a technically plentiful and extensively studied subject in controls literature during recent decades. This investigation of spacecraft attitude control is assumed to address two important aspects of the problem solutions. One sliding mode anti-disturbance control for utilization of faulty actuator components and another one disturbance observer based control to improve the pointing accuracy in the absence of anti-vibration equipment for the elastic appendages like a solar panel. Simultaneous occurrence of vibration due to flexible appendages and reaction degradation due to failure in attitude actuators complicates this case. The advantage of this method is acquisition proper control by the combination of disturbance observer and sliding mode compensation that form a fault tolerant control for the concerned satellite attitude control system. Furthermore, the proposed composite method indicates that occurrence the failure in actuators and even elastic solar panel vibration effect may be handled directly without reconfiguring the control components or providing piezoelectric devices. It's noteworthy, attitude quaternion and angular velocity commands are robustly tracked via controllers to become inclined to zero.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.651-658
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• 2009

Nonlinear sliding surface design in variable structure systems for spacecraft attitude control problems is studied. A robustness analysis is performed for regular form of system, and calculation of actuator bandwidth is presented by reviewing sliding surface dynamics. To achieve non-singular attitude description and minimal parameterization, spacecraft attitude control problems are considered based on modified Rodrigues parameters (MRP). It is shown that the derived controller ensures the sliding motion in pre-determined region irrespective of unmodeled effects and disturbances.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.731-737
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• 2012

In the present study, a feasibility study on an innovative satellite attitude control actuator is performed. The actuator is specially designed to generate the reaction torque in an arbitrary axis, so that a satellite attitude can be controlled by using itself. It consists of a spherical flywheel and electromagnets for levitation and rotation control of the ball. As the earlier study, a rotating performance test on the spherical actuator is conducted in a single rotating axis and vertical levitation condition. From the test results, it can be confirmed that the maximum speed and torque of the innovative device are 7,200rpm and 0.7Nm, respectively. Using a velocity-voltage characteristic curve of the spherical motor, an open-loop control (V/f constant control) is performed, and the test results show excellent control performance in acceleration and deceleration phases.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 2013

Attitude command response type required for enhanced handling qualities of helicopter can be implemented by mechanical automatic flight control system with SAS actuators which have limited authorities. However, the early saturation of SAS actuator hinders the helicopter from following the attitude command for large stick command. Auto-trim controller can delay SAS actuator's saturation by utilizing trim actuators and allows the attitude command response type for larger stick command. This paper describes the control law for limited authority system of helicopter with auto-trim. Limited authority system is applied to BO-105 linear dynamic model and simulation is performed along with handling quality analysis.