Automatic Mass Balancing of Air-Bearing-Based Three-Axis Rotational Spacecraft Simulator
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چکیده
Air-bearing-based spacecraft simulators are widely used to develop and verify spacecraft control techniques required by modern spacecraft applications. To create a spacelike environment with ground spacecraft simulators, the effects of gravity should be minimized. For a spherical air-bearing system with 3 rotational degrees of freedom, the center of rotation of the spacecraft simulator should be exactly aligned with the center of gravity. This paper presents the automatic mass balancingmethod, which compensates for the center of gravity offset from the center of rotation by actuating three proof masses on linear motion stages. Adaptive control of the automatic mass balancing system is usedwhile the balancingmasses are actuated in real time. The proposed techniques are implemented on the ground-based three-axis spacecraft simulator for the bifocal relay mirror spacecraft.
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