A Low-speed, Low-acceleration Controller for Cost-effective Reaction-wheels
Design, Simulation & Implementation
W.A. Lopes (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
AJ van Genderen – Mentor (TU Delft - Computer Engineering)
H. Hassan HosseinNia – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Mechatronic Systems Design)
Bert Monna – Coach (Hyperion Technologies)
Stephan Wong – Coach (TU Delft - Computer Engineering)
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Abstract
With the requirements for CubeSats increasing, a push towards utilizing highperformance equipment has
never been greater. Incorporating these equipment in an environment that is cost, space and
powerconstrained, is challenging. Simultaneously, highperformance equipment require high
pointingaccuracy and lowjitter. This thesis proposes the use of a costeffective reactionwheel, which
utilizes three hallsensors for accurate attitudecontrol. Additionally, the requirements state that the
reactionwheel operates in the lowspeed region, whilst tracking lowacceleration commands. For this, a
controllerstructure is designed, simulated & implemented in order to provide accurate angularvelocity
estimates at a constant rate. Whilst the angularvelocity estimates are within 1% of the measurements, the
angularacceleration tracking performance relies greatly on the noise of the reactionwheel torquefriction.
Nonetheless, the angularacceleration mean error was found to be 0.005 RPM/s, with a variance of 0.3
RPM/s on a 0.01 RPM/s reference
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