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An improved constrained steering law for SGCMGs with DPC

  • Lei Jin*
  • , Shijie Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

An improved constrained (IC) steering law for single gimbal control moment gyros (SGCMGs) with deformed pyramid configuration (DPC) is proposed. First of all, the original system with five pyramid configuration (FPC) whose two adjacent gyros are in failure state is reconfigured as a degraded system with DPC. Then, the singular angular momentum hypersurfaces of the original and the degraded systems are plotted via the singular angular momentum equation of SGCMGs. Based on singular surfaces, the differences between FPC and DPC in singularity and momentum envelope are obtained directly, which provide an important reference for steering law design of DPC. Finally, an IC steering law is designed and applied to DPC. The simulation results demonstrate that the IC steering law has advantages in simplicity of calculation, avoidance of singularity and exactness of output torque, which endow the degraded system with fine controllability in a restricted workspace.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)713-720
Number of pages8
JournalActa Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Deformed pyramid configuration (DPC)
  • Failure
  • Single gimbal control moment gyros (SGCMGs)
  • Singularity
  • Steering law

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