CubeSat antenna vibration control using piezoelectric bender considering system requirements

Vibration control of satellite antenna is the main concern to good quality data transmission and reduction of mechanical disturbance in attitude maneuvers. This paper is devoted to mathematical modeling and vibration control of cube-sat antenna. To do this aim, piezoelectric sensor and actuator are utilized and mathematical model of antenna by considering piezoelectric actuator as input parameter and antenna tip deflection as the output parameter. By performing experimental tests, system unknown parameters as damping ratio and natural frequency are obtained based on FFT analysis and the least square method. To control the antenna vibration, its mathematical model is obtained by considering piezoelectric voltage as an input and antenna tip deflection as an output. Herein, due to limitation on the power subsystem, it is not possible to apply continuous voltages and only 100V voltage is available which complicates the control task. Three different control algorithms are proposed for antenna control and compared together. The results show that the proposed control strategies are efficient and can reduce the control time from 10 to about 1 second. The appearing parameters in the selected control algorithm are optimized using genetic algorithm. The presented results in this paper are useful for the design and control of antenna and also for the accurate design of satellite control subsystem.