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Design optimization of the JPL Phase B testbedIncreasingly complex spacecraft will benefit from integrated design and optimization of structural, optical, and control subsystems. Integrated design optimization will allow designers to make tradeoffs in objectives and constraints across these subsystems. The location, number, and types of passive and active devices distributed along the structure can have a dramatic impact on overall system performance. In addition, the manner in which structural mass is distributed can also serve as an effective mechanism for attenuating disturbance transmission between source and sensitive system components. This paper presents recent experience using optimization tools that have been developed for addressing some of these issues on a challenging testbed design problem. This particular testbed is one of a series of testbeds at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the sponsorship of the NASA Control Structure Interaction (CSI) Program to demonstrate nanometer level optical pathlength control on a flexible truss structure that emulates a spaceborne interferometer.
Document ID
19930009656
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Milman, Mark H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Salama, M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wette, M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chu, Cheng-Chih
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Langley Research Center, The Fifth NASA(DOD Controls-Structures Interaction Technology Conference, Part 1
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Accession Number
93N18845
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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