Since mid-1980s NASA has launched several first-generation interplanetary observatory missions. A salient feature of these missions has been the mounting of the optical payload on top of a large flexible space structure. This imposes challenging control-structure interaction problems (CSI) that have been studied over several decades. The Dec. 2021 launch of the James Webb Telescope marks the latest example of such a mission. One way to encourage development of novel control methods is to provide a benchmark problem for researchers. By the mid-2000s, there were a few well-known benchmark problems developed by the control community with a focus on CSI applications. However, in the past 15 years, the control challenges in optical observation missions have shifted from CSI to line-of-sight (LOS) precision pointing. This is because popular designs of the second-generation (Gen II) space earth missions have eliminated the large structure interface by mounting the optical payload directly on top of a rigid bus platform. The focus now is to achieve accurate pointing with maximum rejection of the surrounding disturbances. The NASA Safety and Engineering Center (NESC) has tasked T he Aerospace Corporation to develop a Benchmark Problem to study the challenging control issues that Gen II observatory missions encounter. This software tool is to be released as a public domain platform aimed at government, academic, and industry researchers. The focus of this benchmark problem is for researchers to design a set of innovative payload control laws with the maximum Optical Disturbance Rejection (ODR) capability to meet a set of pre-defined μrad-level of LOS jitter requirements. This paper describes the development of the benchmark problem. Aerospace/NASA will provide an integrated LOS plant model and disturbance/command profiles for users to run their design and simulation with as well as a user’s guide describing the required interfaces. The Aerospace Corp is also working to develop a hardware fast steering mirror testbed for users to demonstrate their innovative design in real hardware, if so desired.


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    Title :

    Spacecraft Observatory Benchmark Problem for Optical Disturbance Rejection


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    Conference:

    45th Annual AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ; 2023 ; Breckenridge, CO, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English




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