The Mini-Mast testbed is a 20 m generic truss highly representative of future deployable trusses for space applications. It is fully instrumented for system identification and active vibrations control experiments and is used as a ground testbed at NASA-Langley. The facility has actuators and feedback sensors linked via fiber optic cables to the Advanced Real Time Simulation (ARTS) system, where user defined control laws are incorporated into generic controls software. The object of the facility is to conduct comprehensive active vibration control experiments on a dynamically realistic large space structure. A primary goal is to understand the practical effects of simplifying theoretical assumptions. This User's Guide describes the hardware and its primary components, the dynamic characteristics of the test article, the control law implementation process, and the necessary safeguards employed to protect the test article. Suggestions for a strawman controls experiment are also included.


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    Title :

    Mini-Mast CSI Testbed User's Guide


    Contributors:
    S. E. Tanner (author) / R. S. Pappa (author) / J. L. Sulla (author) / K. B. Elliott (author) / R. Miserentino (author)

    Publication date :

    1992


    Size :

    46 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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