Title
Shape optimization of a three-dimensional membrane-structured solar sail using an angular momentum unloading strategy
Date Issued
01 May 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Waseda University
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
A shape of the satellite's solar sail membrane is essential for unloading angular momentum in the three-axis stabilized attitude control system because the three-dimensional solar sail can receive solar radiation pressure from arbitrary directions. In this paper, the objective is the shape optimization of a three-dimensional membrane-structured solar sail using the angular momentum unloading strategy. We modelled and simulated the solar radiation pressure torque, for unloading angular momentum. Using the simulation system, since the unloading angular momentum rate is maximized, the shape of the three-dimensional solar sail was optimized using a Genetic algorithm and Sequential Quadratic Programming. The unloading velocity in the optimized shaped solar sail was greatly improved with respect to a conventional flat or pyramid solar sail.
Start page
2706
End page
2715
Volume
67
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85100236305
Source
Advances in Space Research
ISSN of the container
02731177
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus