On-Off thrusters have limitation both at minimum on-time and minimum off-time, so the output is nonlinear pulses. Use on-off thrusters to provide linear or near linear control force is a fundamental and important research topic. Existing previous works do not overcome the limitation of on-time and off-time constraints, so the output is only an approximation of demanded force output. In this paper, Pulse Phase modulation (PP) is proposed to generate linear output through on-off thruster pair. PP modulation exploited the dynamic output curve of thrusters. By adjusting phase difference of thruster pair that installed in the opposite direction, thrust output can be linear proportional to demanded force output. PP modulation breaks the limitation caused by minimum on-time and off-time, and thus achieves high continuity of thrust output. For practical engineering implementation, two approximate methods are proposed as double frequency phase modulation and quadruple frequency phase modulation. Theoretical analysis and experimental results are provided to prove that PP modulation can yield much better precision in stabilizing space vehicles.


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    Title :

    Pulse Phase modulation for on-off thruster pair


    Contributors:
    Du, Runle (author) / Liu, Jiaqi (author) / Zhang, Li (author) / Gao, Lu (author)


    Publication date :

    2014-03-01


    Size :

    1357402 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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