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CubeSat: When designing the PID Controller of the CubeSat, what are some constraints that you need to take into account?
For a 1U CubeSat project in which we need to design the controller for it.
We decided to not include any propulsion system to keep it light, we'll just essentially drop the satellite on LEO and let it ...
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How often is discrete-time control used in industry?
Although in reality I know that computers handle all systems in discrete time, in my limited industry work experience I've only used continuous-time control system analysis/standard frequency domain ...
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How does adding a long fixed pole on top of a drone with a certain mass change the dynamics of a quadcopter?
I have to model a quadcopter with a long rod on top of it so I can later design a control system for the system. I'm a bit lost as to how the dynamics of the system change by adding the rod, can ...
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How to model a cable for control?
I'm studying a system in space that uses centrifugal force to keep four tip masses extended. The system is defined as follows : a central hub that has rotation freedom in all directions, four tip ...
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Jacobians and Manipulator Dynamics
This is a Stanford Manipulator
I started off working on it by initially
setting up the DH table
Transformation Matrix and then Homogeneous Transformation Matrix
I started finding the linear and ...
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Specificities of satellite AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control System) engineering
I'm still a graduate student in aerospace enginneering, in Europe. I specialised in control systems, and I'm interested in working in the satellite manufacturing industry. I'm especially curious about ...
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Where can i get the aerodynamic data of aircrafts for controller design and testing?
I have some research papers on aircraft controller design that i want to simulate, but no system data is given in the research paper itself. I am also unable to find the aerodynamic data for any ...
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Aircraft Longitudinal and Lateral Transfer Function Terms
The figure shows input and output variables for both longitudinal and lateral stability transfer functions.
I completely understand what each term stands for but I was wondering what would be the ...
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Closed loop guidance and control: how to tune a system with multiple feedback controllers?
I'm trying to design a closed-loop guidance system for rockets - something that can be implemented in Kerbal Space Program, for example. To do this, I'm following the design process described in ...
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I have a problem with my representation of roll in Simulink
I am currently an engineering student and a member of the aerospace club of my engineering school (ESILV) which is called LéoFly. We’re a team of 12 students and are building a Fusex (...
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Designing a PID Controller for Satellite Control
As an Aerospace Engineering Student, I have been trying to make a project of a PID Controller to control the attitude response of a satellite using the parameters from a project called Kufasat.
The ...
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Strange simulink error. Professor & TA don't know. Any Ideas?
I am currently working on developing a simulation for a restricted UAV, and I’m having some issues with Simulink while doing this. I have my mathematical equations which have been approved by my ...
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What is the straightest, longest and strongest pole that could be launched into space?
Which of these poles would be straighter and stronger then the others?
These are some poles that are compacted making them possible to send to space. Sending a single solid pole .5km long will not be ...
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simulation of an attitude optimal Backstepping controller based quaternion for a UAV in MATLAB
I'am trying to implement this open access research article Attitude Optimal Backstepping Controller Based Quaternion for a UAV
I did not find the same result in this paper Can anyone tell me where my ...
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Need some advice, control system animation. Appreciate some help!
I would like to have a 3d simulation of a helicopter landing on a ship.
I thought about using matlab for this, as a far as I know you can connect models from Simulink to virtual worlds using blocks, ...
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