Future solar sail missions will require sails with dimensions on the order of 100 m to l km. At these sizes, given the gossamer nature of the sail supporting structures, flexible modes may be low enough to interact with the control system. This paper develops a practical analysis of the flexible interactions using state-space systems and modal data from standard finite element models of the sail sub- system. The modal data is combined with a rigid core bus to create a modal coordinate state-space plant, which can be analyzed for stability with a state-space controller. Results are presented for an 80 m sail for both collocated actuation and control by actuators mounted at the sail tips.


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    Title :

    Control Analysis of flexible Solar Sails


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    6th International EAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems ; 2005 ; Loutraki, Greece


    Publication date :

    2005-09-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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