A Low-Cost Redundant Attitude System for Small Satellites, Based on Strap-Down Inertial Techniques and Gyro Sensors Linear Clustering

Author:

Mustață Mircea Ștefan1,Grigorie Teodor Lucian2

Affiliation:

1. Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I” in Bucharest, 050141 Bucharest, Romania

2. National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

The significant technological changes related to the manufacturing of the miniaturized sensors produced a higher impact at the level of the detection units equipping the strap-down inertial navigation systems (INSs). Together with miniaturization, many more advantages are brought by these technologies, related to low costs, low necessary energy, high robustness and high potential for adapting the design solutions. However, reducing the dimensions and weight of the sensors is reflected by a decrease in their performance in terms of sensitivity, noise and the possibility of controlling sensitive elements. On the other hand, there is a permanent increase in the need to have in-space applications of miniaturized systems with a high degree of redundancy and to equip miniaturized satellites, miniaturized space robots or space rovers. The paper proposes a new methodology to increase the quality of the signals received from the miniaturized inertial measurement units (IMUs), but also to increase the degree of redundancy, by using low-cost sensors arranged in redundant linear configurations. The presentation is focused on the development of an attitude system based on strap-down inertial techniques which uses a redundant IMU equipped with three linear clusters of miniaturized gyros. For each of the three clusters, a data fusion mechanism based on the maximal ratio combining method is applied. This fusion mechanism reduces the noise power and bias of the signal delivered to the navigation processor. Shown are the theory, software modeling and experimentation results for the attitude algorithm, for the data fusion method, and for the integrated system.

Funder

UEFISCDI - Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding in Romania

Publisher

MDPI AG

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