Minimizing vibrations of a exible spacecraft actuated by on-off thrusters is a challenging task. This paper presents the rst study of pulse-width pulse-frequency modulated thruster control using command input shaping. Input shaping is a technique that uses a shaped command to ensure zero residual vibration of a exible structure. Pulse-width pulse-frequency modulation is a control method that provides pseudolinear operation for an on-off thruster. The proposed method takes full advantage of the pseudolinear property of a pulse-width pulse-frequency modulator and integrates it with a command shaper to minimize the vibration of a exible spacecraft induced by on-off thruster ring. Compared to other methods, this new approach has numerous advantages: 1) effectiveness in vibration suppression, 2) dependence only on modal frequency and damping, 3) robustness to variations in modal frequency and damping, and 4) easy computation. Numerical simulations performed on an eight-mode model of the Flexible Spacecraft Simulator in the Spacecraft Research and Design Center at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School demonstrate the ef cacy and robustness of the method.
Minimizing vibrations of a flexible spacecraft actuated by on-off thrusters is a challenging task. This paper presents the first study of Pulse-Width PulseFrequency (PWPF) modulated thruster control using command input shaping. Input shaping is a technique which uses shaped command to ensure zero residual vibration of a flexible structure. PWPF modulation is a control method which provides pseudo-linear operation for an on-off thruster. The proposed method takes full advantage of the pseudo-linear property of a PWPF modulator and integrates it with a command shaper to minimize the vibration of a flexible spacecraft induced by on-off thruster firing. Compared to other methods, this new approach has numerous advantages: 1) effectiveness in vibration suppression, 2) dependence only on modal frequency and damping, 3) robustness to variations in modal frequency and damping, 4) easy computation and 5) simple implementation. Numerical simulations performed on an eight-mode model of the Flexible Spacecraft Simulator (FSS) in the Spacecraft Research and Design Center (SRDC) at US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) demonstrate the efficacy and robustness of the method.
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