Affiliation:
1. Department of Control Engineering and System Analysis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Abstract
This tutorial reviews the author’s contributions to the active control of precision space structures over the past 35 years. It is based on the Santini lecture presented at the IAC-2022 Astronautical Congress in Paris in September 2022. The first part is devoted to the active damping of space trusses with an emphasis on robustness. Guaranteed stability is achieved by using decentralized collocated actuator–sensor pairs. The so-called integral force feedback (IFF) is simple, robust, and effective, and the performances can be predicted easily with simple formulae based on modal analyses. These predictions have been confirmed by numerous experiments. The damping strategy for trusses has been extended to cable structures, and also confirmed experimentally. The second part addresses the problem of vibration isolation: isolating a sensitive payload from the vibration induced by the spacecraft (i.e., the unbalanced mass of attitude control reaction wheels and gyros). A six-axis isolator based on a Gough–Stewart platform is discussed; once again, the approach emphasizes robustness. Two different solutions are presented: The first one (active isolation) uses a decentralized controller with collocated pairs of the actuator and force sensor, with IFF control. It is demonstrated that this special implementation of the skyhook, unlike the classical one, has guaranteed stability, even if the two substructures it connects are flexible (typical of large space structures). A second approach (passive) discusses an electromagnetic implementation of the relaxation isolator where the classical dash-pot of the linear damper is substituted by a Maxwell unit, leading to an asymptotic decay rate of −40 dB/decade, similar to the skyhook (although much simpler in terms of electronics). The third part of the lecture summarizes more recent work done on the control of flexible mirrors: (i) flat mirrors for adaptive optics (AO) controlled by an array of piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) actuators and (ii) spherical thin shell polymer reflectors controlled by an array of piezoelectric polymer actuators (PVDF-TrFE) aimed at being deployed in space.
Subject
Control and Optimization,Control and Systems Engineering
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