Fault-Tolerant Attitude Determination and Control System Design of Nanosatellite 2
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 31, Issue 6
Abstract
Nanosatellite 2 (NS-2) is a science and technology experimental nanosatellite developed by Tsinghua University. Since it was launched, NS-2 has operated properly and has been used as a low-cost, rapid-response satellite platform for on-orbit experiments with microelectromechanical system devices. The design, mathematical model, numerical simulation, and on-orbit telemetry data analysis of the NS-2 attitude determination and control system (ADCS) are presented in this paper. A bias momentum wheel and three-axis magnetic torquers were used and an actuator fault-tolerance control algorithm was proposed. Flight data confirmed that NS-2 ADCS achieved a three-axis stabilized control with an accuracy of 2.5° and an angular rate within in each axis, which met the mission requirements. In addition, single event effects were detected during the NS-2 flight, which led to attitude control failures. A simple and practical fault processing method was uploaded to NS-2 ADCS by the ground station to solve this problem. On-orbit operation validated the efficacy of this method. This paper provided reference for the study and design of nanosatellites.
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Acknowledgments
This work is financially supported by a grant from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2013AA122601). The laboratory experiments were performed at the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments in Tsinghua University. We gratefully acknowledge the support of both institutions.
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Volume 31 • Issue 6 • November 2018
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Received: Nov 29, 2017
Accepted: Apr 10, 2018
Published online: Jul 17, 2018
Published in print: Nov 1, 2018
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