{"id":72975,"key":"Air-bearing_platforms_for_Satellite_Attitude_Simulations_literature_review","title":"Air-bearing platforms for Satellite Attitude Simulations literature review","latest":{"id":1210497,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T11:56:26Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{L3999 notice}}\n\n{{MOST literature review notice}}\n\n''' List of search terms '''\n\n* Air-bearing attitude\n* Air-bearing attitude frictionless satellite\n* spacecraft simulator air bearing\n* frictionless attitude simulator\n\n== List of references ==\n\n==== G. Allan Smith, \"[https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19690009645.pdf DYNAMIC SIMULATORS FOR TEST OF SPACE VEHICLE ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEMS]\", NASA - Langley Research Center, 1964 ====\n\n* overview in the early era of space technology\n* basic equations of physical models and lists several relevant physical effects\n\n==== Richard Boynton, \"[https://www.space-electronics.com/contentAssets/Literature/SAWE_Papers/Using_a_Spherical_Air_Bearing_to_Simulate_Weightlessness.pdf Using A Spherical Air Bearing To Simulate Weightlessness]\", 55th Annual Conference of the Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc., 1996 ====\n\n* contains comparison with drop tests\n* written in a pretty informal way, also makes some bold statements without elaboration\n* no references\n* in a way, this is a product presentation for Space Electronics Inc.\n* precision and tolerances info can be useful, though maybe their importance is a bit inflated\n\n==== B. Kim, E. Velenis, P. Kriengsiri, and P. Tsiotras, “[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.21.317&rep=rep1&type=pdf A spacecraft simulator for research and education]”, in Proceedings of the AIAA/AAS astrodynamics specialists conference, 897–914, 2001 ====\n\n* detailed explanation of one system\n* lists MOI identification methods and shows one in use, with good equation derivations\n* characterization of reaction wheels included\n* some info about filtering\n\n==== Jana L. Schwartz, Mason A. Peck, Christopher D. Hall, \"[https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.5085 Historical Review of Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators]\", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 26(4), 513-522, 2003 ====\n\n* historical survey\n* linear, rotational, hybrid and manned simulators\n* good to see range of capabilities for various platforms\n\n==== Cho S, Shen J, Mcclamroch NH. \"[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/mcmd.9.2.165.16520 Mathematical Models for the Triaxial Attitude Control Testbed]\", Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems. 9(2), 165–92, 2003 ====\n\n* plenty of equations for various cases\n\n==== Jung D, Tsiotras P, \"[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228610091_A_3-DoF_Experimental_Test-Bed_for_Integrated_Attitude_Dynamics_and_Control_Research A 3-DoF Experimental Test-Bed for Integrated Attitude Dynamics and Control Research]\", 2003 ====\n\n* similar to (Kim 2001)\n* detailed model of RW\n* more estiamtion of MOI\n\n==== Schwartz JL, Hall CD. \"[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/04b7/be12b757792f9b7b632947cde24ed7175740.pdf The distributed spacecraft attitude control system simulator: development, progress, plans]\" NASA Space Flight Mechanics Symposium, Greenbelt, MD, 2003 ====\n\n* presents two types of platform setups, using bases from space electronics\n* software libraries shortly mentioned\n* lists a number of experiments planned to be done with it\n\n==== Schwartz JL, Hall CD. \"[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/adae/b997737ce9da6c3771643e35f4dd927c98d4.pdf System identification of a spherical air-bearing spacecraft simulator]\", AAS Paper 122, 2004 ====\n\n* same system as in (Schwartz 2003)\n* system equations\n* three methods of MOI identification presented\n* analysis of methods performance and how they are affected by noises\n\n==== Prado J, Bisiacchi G, Reyes L, Vicente E, Contreras F, Mesinas M, et al, \"[www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/jart/v3n3/v3n3a6.pdf Three-axis air-bearing based platform for small satellite attitude determination and control simulation]\", Journal of Applied Research and Technology, 3(3), 222–237, 2005 ====\n\n* gives overview of another air-bearing setup, dimensions included\n* two MOI estimation methods described\n\n==== Kim JJ, Agrawal BN. \"[http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.34437 Automatic Mass Balancing of Air-Bearing-Based Three-Axis Rotational Spacecraft Simulator]\", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 32(3), 1005–1017, 2009 ====\n\n* estimation of COG\n* platform equipped with mass balancer, that can automatically readjust COG if satellite structure permits its dislocation\n\n==== Rossini L, Onillon E, Chetelat O, Allegranza C. \"[https://www.comsol.asia/paper/download/63816/rossini_paper.pdf Electromagnetic force simulations on a reaction sphere for satellite attitude control]\", COMSOL Conference, 2010 ====\n\n* alternative to air-bearing\n* can be interesting for a contrast\n\n==== Gallardo, D., Bevilacqua, R., Rasmussen, R., \"[https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2011-6591 Advances on a 6 Degrees of Freedom Testbed for Autonomous Satellites Operations]\", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011 ====\n\n* presents a platform with 6 DOF, where even the translational vertical is frictionless\n\n==== Ustrzycki, Tyler, Regina Lee, and Hugh Chesser, “[https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2011-6272 Spherical Air Bearing Attitude Control Simulator for Nanosatellites]”, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011 ====\n\n* 3 DOF platform that supports mounting of the CubeSats\n* manual COG balancing\n\n==== Woo, Hyunwook, Octavio Rico, Simone Chesi, and Marcello Romano, “[https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2011-6271 CubeSat Three Axis Simulator(CubeTAS)]”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference. Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Co-Located Conferences. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011 ====\n\n* small platform for CubeSats, but actually not having a CubeSat\n* automatic COG balancing\n* helmholtz coils\n\n==== Gavrilovich, Irina, Sébastien Krut, Marc Gouttefarde, François Pierrot, and Laurent Dusseau, “[https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01310802/document Test Bench For Nanosatellite Attitude Determination And Control System Ground Tests]”, Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium, 2014 ====\n\n* two CubeSat frictionless platform ideas quite different than in other older articles\n* one is without air-bearing, but introduces automatic torque compensation, with nice analysis of its performance\n* second gives a radical approach, with a minimal satellite container, which in theory provides full 3 DOF and minimal parasitic MOI additions, however it seems to be very challenging to realize in practice\n\n==== Kwan, T. H., K. M. B. Lee, J. Yan, and X. Wu, “[https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEA.2015.7334330 An Air Bearing Table for Satellite Attitude Control Simulation]”, IEEE 10th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 1420–1425, 2015 ====\n\n* gives overview of a platform meant for CubeSats with automatic balancing\n* design aspects similar to those in early articles, but with smaller dimensions\n* uses UKF for MOI and CG estimation\n\n==== Gavrilovich, Irina, Sébastien Krut, Marc Gouttefarde, François Pierrot, and Laurent Dusseau, “[https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01348039/document INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO USE AIR BEARINGS IN CUBESAT GROUND TESTS]”, Small Satellites, System & Services (4S) Symposium 2016, 2016 ====\n\n* contains mathematical model and simulation results of the second idea from (Gavrilovich 2014)\n* one air bearing element has been equipped with the spring as well\n* contains air bearing stiffness model\n\n==== Culton, Eryn, and King, “[http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3553&context=smallsat Design and Development of an Unrestricted Satellite Motion Simulator]” 31 st Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2017 ====\n\n* full spherical platform for CubeSats\n* interesting approach with porous static part of air bearing, instead of regular that have only several outlets\n* automatic COG and MOI calibrations, possibility to simulate big range of MOI configurations with moveable weights and applying scaling factors to the output control\n* imprecise manufacturing prevented unrestricted motion\n* one of the goals was to provide cost effective solution\n\n==== Sternberg, David C., Christopher Pong, Nuno Filipe, Swati Mohan, Shawn Johnson, and Laura Jones-Wilson, “[https://doi.org/10.2514/1.A33806 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Small Satellite Dynamics Testbed Simulation: On-Orbit Performance Model Validation]”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 1–13, 2017 ====\n\n* presents a 6 DOF platform\n* includes analysis of air bearing frictions, Couette dissipation\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| title-tag = Air-bearing Platforms for Satellite Simulations: Review\n}}"}