POINTING PERFORMANCE CONTROL OF A SPACECRAFT CAMERA USING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS

2010-02-18
Kayastha, Sharmila
Tekinalp, Ozan
Ozgoren, Kemal
A control system is designed to improve the pointing performance of a large Earth observation camera carried by a spacecraft. The spacecraft camera is mounted to the spacecraft thorough active truss members. The control system uses a cluster of reaction wheels together with piezoelectric struts. The improvement in the pointing performance using this dual actuator system is demonstrated through simulations.

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Citation Formats
S. Kayastha, O. Tekinalp, and K. Ozgoren, “POINTING PERFORMANCE CONTROL OF A SPACECRAFT CAMERA USING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS,” 2010, vol. 136, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54527.