Affiliation:
1. Berkeley Engineering Research Institute, P.O. Box 9984, Berkeley, CA 94709
Abstract
In this paper, design of control laws for V-gimbaled control-moment-gyro (CMG) devices is studied. Such a device has two gyros that are used to control the slewing motion of space truss arms. Control laws are designed to make the gyros of a CMG device track a desired function of time synchronously. Synchronous tracking makes the angular displacement of a truss arm track a desired function of time. Application of the synchronizing control laws to two-gyro systems in the absence and presence of parametric uncertainties and disturbances is studied. In both cases, the designed control laws achieve the desired goals.
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Mechanical Engineering,Instrumentation,Information Systems,Control and Systems Engineering