Abstract The microvibrations generated by flywheels running at full speed onboard high precision spacecrafts will affect stability of the spacecraft bus and further degrade pointing accuracy of the payload. A passive vibration isolation platform comprised of multi-segment zig-zag beams is proposed to isolate disturbances of the flywheel. By considering the flywheel and the platform as an integral system with gyroscopic effects, an equivalent dynamic model is developed and verified through eigenvalue and frequency response analysis. The critical speeds of the system are deduced and expressed as functions of system parameters. The vibration isolation performance of the platform under synchronal and high-order harmonic disturbances caused by the flywheel is investigated. It is found that the speed range within which the passive platform is effective and the disturbance decay rate of the system are greatly influenced by the locations of the critical speeds. Structure optimization of the platform is carried out to enhance its performance. Simulation results show that a properly designed vibration isolation platform can effectively reduce disturbances emitted by the flywheel operating above the critical speeds of the system.


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    Title :

    Modeling and analysis of a flywheel microvibration isolation system for spacecrafts


    Contributors:
    Wei, Zhanji (author) / Li, Dongxu (author) / Luo, Qing (author) / Jiang, Jianping (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 55 , 2 ; 761-777


    Publication date :

    2014-10-29


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English