Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 1345-1350Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2020.3040032
Keywords
Magnetic levitation; Magnetic moments; CubeSat; Magnetometers; Attitude control; Torque; Testing; Attitude control; CubeSat; hardware-in-the-loop simulations; magnetic control; spacecraft
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This article introduces the development of a magnetic attitude control system (MACS) testbed for CubeSat, utilizing a spherical air bearing and a Helmholtz cage, along with the design, development, and verification procedure. Different test scenarios are presented, and experimental results confirming the effectiveness of the B-dot control algorithm were compared with numerical simulations.
For CubeSats requiring high pointing accuracy and slewing agility, ground-based hardware-in-the-loop simulations are strongly demanded to test and validate spacecraft subsystems and guidance, navigation, and control algorithms. In this article, a magnetic attitude control system (MACS) testbed for a CubeSat is developed utilizing a spherical air bearing and a Helmholtz cage. The design, development, and verification procedure of MACS is presented together with different test scenarios. To generate enough torque with the magnetorquer system in the dynamic testbed, the Helmholtz coil system of the testbed has driven to provide an augmented magnetic field. As an example of experimentation, the B-dot control algorithm was implemented to dissipate the angular momentum of the dynamic MACS testbed. The experimental results were compared with those of the numerical simulations.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available