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Mini-mast CSI testbed user's guideThe Mini-Mast testbed is a 20 m generic truss highly representative of future deployable trusses for space applications. It is fully instrumented for system identification and active vibrations control experiments and is used as a ground testbed at NASA-Langley. The facility has actuators and feedback sensors linked via fiber optic cables to the Advanced Real Time Simulation (ARTS) system, where user defined control laws are incorporated into generic controls software. The object of the facility is to conduct comprehensive active vibration control experiments on a dynamically realistic large space structure. A primary goal is to understand the practical effects of simplifying theoretical assumptions. This User's Guide describes the hardware and its primary components, the dynamic characteristics of the test article, the control law implementation process, and the necessary safeguards employed to protect the test article. Suggestions for a strawman controls experiment are also included.
Document ID
19920009716
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Tanner, Sharon E. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Pappa, Richard S. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Sulla, Jeffrey L. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Elliott, Kenny B. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Miserentino, Robert (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Bailey, James P. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Cooper, Paul A. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Williams, Boyd L., Jr. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Bruner, Anne M. (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Hampton, VA., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Subject Category
Structural Mechanics
Report/Patent Number
NASA-TM-102630
NAS 1.15:102630
Accession Number
92N18958
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 590-14-61-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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