Journal of Space Science and Technology
Year:2015 | Volume:8 | Issue:3|Papers Count:7

Important issues in designing a controller for re-entry vehicles is environmental uncertainties such as rapid changes in atmospheric properties which is an explicit function of altitude and also uncertainties of itself vehicle such as aerodynamic coefficient, moment of inertia and so on. This paper deals with the design of a control in order to overcome the uncertainty that uses bank angle as a trajectory control variable. Another issue raised in recent studies has been integration of adaptive controller with guidance systems of reentry vehicles because in real re-entry vehicle the bank angle is not a predefined profile function of velocity or altitude buta guidance algorithm are used to produce bank commands during the atmospheric flight. Hence, other objectives of the thesis is to study and implementing of a guidance algorithm and proving of desired performance of the designed controller in a perfect scenario from starting point of the re-entry path until the opening of parachutes. Performance of designed controller is studied through simulations of six degrees of freedom of re-entry vehicle.. The results showed good performance in the presence of parametric uncertainty and unknown initial condition.

In this paper, achieving of Stereo-Imaging scenario by a remote sensing satellite will be presented. Then a suitable attitude control system will be designed using 4 reaction wheels with pyramidal structure to fulfill large angle maneuvers of stereo-imaging scenario. The proposed attitude control system provide the satellite with the capability of nadir pointing and large angle maneuvers to take different images of a predefined zone from different point of view. In order to verify the performance of the designed attitude control system, a low-cost real time hardware in the loop test bed will be constructed. The constructed test bed is capable of assessing attitude control algorithms in a real time conditions. In the proposed test bed, accurate and real time modeling of satellite dynamics, space conditions, reaction wheels and gyroscopes will be done by the Simulator computer. Finally, performance of the designed attitude controller to achieve stereo-imaging scenario is investigated by implementing the algorithm in the hardware in the loop test bed in a real time condition.

In this paper a nonlinear optimal control is suggested. Spacecraft intended to rendezvous and dock with the target is controlled by actuators to have a safe and stable course while satisfying requirements. The Nonlinear optimal controller is designed using nonlinear equations of relative position and attitude of spacecraft for circular and elliptical orbits with and without reaction wheels. Cost function of the optimal control problem is expressed in the form of nonlinear quadratic regulator and control constraints are applied to the problem to gain controls in the allowable domain which is produced by the wheels. For the sake of robustness to the uncertainties as one of the most important element of the control design, nonlinear optimal control is derived using state dependent Riccatti equation based on analytical method of eigen vectors of Hamiltonian matrix. Simulation results show that this nonlinear control method achieves a good performance for rendezvous and docking problem.

In this study, the aerodynamic heating of the flying body during powered flight phase has been numerically investigated. The conjugate simulation of fluid heat transfer and solid heat conduction has been considered. To this aim, the coupling boundary condition has been used for body shell that allows the conjugate heat transfer investigation in the fluid and solid domains simultaneously. The model has been considered as a circular cylinder and spherically blunted cone nose with 350mm in diameter. The investigation has been carried out at different Mach number from 1.5 to 4.2 to cover range of supersonic flow. The advantage of this method is that the wall temperature and heat flux in any part of the nose and body shell with or without axial symmetry, connected components and other protuberances could be calculated at different angles of attack. Finally, the approach has been validated through the results of analytical and numerical methods for aerodynamic heating of axisymmetric vehicles.

This paper proposes a supplementary method for conceptual design of satellite electrical power subsystem (EPS). Each of represented methods for satellite electrical power subsystem conceptual design in different references have some advantages and also disadvantages, besides in each of the methods a determined part of this subsystem has been in focused. In this research, first advantages and disadvantages of existing approaches for the conceptual design of electrical power subsystem were reviewed, continued with combining of previous methods, improved relationships and using some of the simulation methods plus the using of statistical databases, a complementary method with more ascendency and less disadvantages in comparison with other approaches was presented. Finally, using a data from a specific satellite and the results of the statistical design, the complementary method has been validated.

In the mission of satellites, instantaneous positioning and estimation of the future position are necessary. In the communication satellite, this matter is so important. Thus in the Tadbir satellite, for the first time in the country, we consider an orbit determination subsystem that equipped with a space borne GPS receiver and contains appropriate algorithms in order to achieve satellite position data during the lunch period and in the orbit. In this paper a brief review of the software and hardware parts of this subsystem is presented. In additional the process of testing to achieve good performance, including functional tests of ODS processor board and functional test of GPS receiver with GPS simulator, environmental condition tests, mechanical tests, thermal vacuum cycle tests, electromagnetic compatibility test and finally integrated satellite tests are stated. This paper, in addition to a description of the Tadbir satellite orbit determination subsystem, an implementation testing of a satellite subsystem is demonstrated, which can be useful to other space field researchers.