The digital control design of an interferometric balance for fine space thruster calibration is presented. The problem was suggested by new micro-thrusters generation aiming at thrusts with sub-micro-Newton resolution. The solution, the Nanobalance instrument, under development, will be employed for on ground qualifying thrust time profile and noise with sub-micro-Newton accuracy. The digital control has been designed and tested in parallel to instrument construction, through a fine numerical simulator of the instrument itself and of the environment disturbances, developed within a proprietary control design environment, ControLab. Severe simulation tests have shown that requirements are met. Next step will be Digital Control Unit interfacing to Nanobalance instrument and testing.
Digital control of an interferometric balance for micro-thrusters qualification / Canuto, Enrico; Rolino, A.. - STAMPA. - II:(2001), pp. 749-752. (Intervento presentato al convegno 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2001 tenutosi a Antibes Juan les Pins France nel October 15-18, 2001) [10.1109/ETFA.2001.997774].
Digital control of an interferometric balance for micro-thrusters qualification
CANUTO, Enrico;
2001
Abstract
The digital control design of an interferometric balance for fine space thruster calibration is presented. The problem was suggested by new micro-thrusters generation aiming at thrusts with sub-micro-Newton resolution. The solution, the Nanobalance instrument, under development, will be employed for on ground qualifying thrust time profile and noise with sub-micro-Newton accuracy. The digital control has been designed and tested in parallel to instrument construction, through a fine numerical simulator of the instrument itself and of the environment disturbances, developed within a proprietary control design environment, ControLab. Severe simulation tests have shown that requirements are met. Next step will be Digital Control Unit interfacing to Nanobalance instrument and testing.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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