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- Title
Design and Optimization of a Magnetically Levitated Inductive Reaction Sphere for Spacecraft Attitude Control.
- Authors
Yuan, Liming; Zhang, Jie; Chen, Si-Lu; Liang, Yusheng; Chen, Jinhua; Zhang, Chi; Yang, Guilin
- Abstract
The inductive reaction sphere (RS) brings the benefit of simple, economical, and miniaturized design, and it is capable of multi-DOF torque generation. Thus, it is a suitable choice for the angular momentum exchange actuator in attitude control of micro-spacecrafts. To synthesize symmetric distribution of eddy currents and improve the speed and stability of rotation, a novel 4-pole winding design is proposed. However, the developed simplified analytical model shows that reduced pole number degrades the torque generation. To enhance the output torque of 4-pole RS, its curved cores and electromagnets are redesigned to enable the side teeth to be functional. As the analytical torque model for the RS with the slotted cores is not available, a constrained optimization problem is formulated, and the optimized parameters are calculated based on the prediction model from supported vector machine and finite element analysis. The lab prototypes are developed to validate the proposed design and test the speed performance. The experimental results show that the 4-pole RS prototype obtains a stable rotation over 700 rpm about X, Y and Z axis respectively with the angular momentum of 0.08 kg·m 2 /s, being superior to the 6-pole counterpart.
- Subjects
SPHERICAL motion; STRUCTURAL design; TORQUE control; SUPPORT vector machines; FINITE element method
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2019, Vol 12, Issue 8, p1553
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en12081553