This paper develops and evaluates a satellite orbital testbed (SOT) for satellite communications (SATCOM). SOT can emulate the 3D satellite orbit using the omni-wheeled robots and a robotic arm. The 3D motion of satellite is partitioned into the movements in the equatorial plane and the up-down motions in the vertical plane. The former actions are emulated by omni-wheeled robots while the up-down motions are performed by a stepped-motor-controlled-ball along a rod (robotic arm), which is attached to the robot. The emulated satellite positions will go to the measure model, whose results will be used to perform multiple space object tracking. Then the tracking results will go to the maneuver detection and collision alert. The satellite maneuver commands will be translated to robots commands and robotic arm commands. In SATCOM, the effects of jamming depend on the range and angles of the positions of satellite transponder relative to the jamming satellite. We extend the SOT to include USRP transceivers. In the extended SOT, the relative ranges and angles are implemented using omni-wheeled robots and robotic arms.


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    Title :

    A satellite orbital testbed for SATCOM using mobile robots


    Contributors:
    Shen, Dan (author) / Lu, Wenjie (author) / Wang, Zhonghai (author) / Jia, Bin (author) / Wang, Gang (author) / Wang, Tao (author) / Chen, Genshe (author) / Blasch, Erik (author) / Pham, Khanh (author)

    Conference:

    Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX ; 2016 ; Baltimore,Maryland,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-05-13





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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