Print Email Facebook Twitter Delfi-n3Xt's Attitude Determiniation and Control Subsystem: Implementation and verification of the hardware and software Title Delfi-n3Xt's Attitude Determiniation and Control Subsystem: Implementation and verification of the hardware and software Author Vos, M. Contributor Van Genderen, A.J. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Computer Engineering Programme Embedded Systems Date 2013-05-16 Abstract Attitude determination and control is the estimation of the current orientation of a satellite and controlling or changing it in order to reach a desired orientation. In the current gener- ation of nano satellites an Attitude Determination and Control Subsytem (ADCS) plays an important roll and sometimes even critical roll. An ADCS is necessary in order to achieve certain mission objectives and to prevent the satellite from tumbling to fast. A failure of this subsystem can have serious consequences and can even lead to a failing mission. Because of the importance, this subsystem must be reliable and robust in order to reduce the risk of a failing system. To achieve reliability and robustness, a software framework must be designed and implemented that minimizes the risk of software failures. Apart from software failures the risk of hardware failures should also be reduced as much as possible. Therefore all hardware should be thoroughly tested, before it can be marked as a flight candidate. Besides reliability and robustness the software framework should also be user friendly. Because the Delfi-n3Xt’s ADCS incorporates two different micro controllers the software framework should be easy to adapt for different micro controllers. For future purposes the software framework should have a modular structure in order to make re-usability and extendibility possible. In this thesis the design and implementation of such a software framework is described. Fur- thermore, the process and results of testing the hardware thoroughly are presented. Subject Delfi-n3XtAttitude Determination and Controlmagnetometerreactionwheelsun sensor To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0640f4b3-8fc8-4d8f-9d8b-e47e6c98313d Embargo date 2013-05-12 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2013 Vos, M. Files PDF thesis.pdf 10.21 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0640f4b3-8fc8-4d8f-9d8b-e47e6c98313d/datastream/OBJ/view