Modified stewart platform for spacecraft thruster vector control

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 261-268

  Ghasemi Nejhad, Mehrdad N ^a   Doherty, Kathleen M ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; FITS AND TOLERANCES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOUNTINGS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT; STRUTS; TUNING; VECTOR SPACES;

ACTIVE MEMBER; ACTIVE VIBRATION SUPPRESSION; ANGULAR-TILT; AXIAL DISPLACEMENTS; FINE TUNING; IN-PLANE; INTELLIGENT PLATFORM; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT; MISSION PERFORMANCE; MODIFIED STEWART PLATFORM; MOUNT SYSTEM; OPERATIONAL PERIODS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; POSITION CORRECTION; PRECISION POSITIONING; ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SATELLITE STRUCTURE; SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT; SOLAR PANELS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT STRUCTURES; SPACECRAFT THRUSTERS; THRUSTER FIRINGS; VECTOR CONTROLS; VIBRATION SUPPRESSION;

SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78249243407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2002-39032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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