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Control of an Overactuated Cable-Driven Parallel Mechanism for a Radio Telescope Application

2009· article· en· 86 citations· W2121331372 on OpenAlex· 10.1109/tcst.2008.2004812

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Teacher disagreement score
0.973
Threshold uncertainty score
1.000
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread
0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
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Abstract

The large adaptive reflector is a Canadian design concept for a new type of large-scale radio telescope. This new telescope would be composed of a reflector made of individually actuated panels and a multitethered feed platform held aloft by an aerostat. This paper focuses on the position and orientation control of the feed platform. Models of both the cables and the feed platform are first derived. Then, a control strategy adapted to the particular system's dynamics is designed. This control strategy is based on a cascade-control architecture, in which the inner control loop adjusts the tension in each cable. This inner loop controller is synthesized using the <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">H</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">infin</sub> optimal-control technique. In addition, gain scheduling is used to adapt the <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">H</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">infin</sub> optimal controller to the cable lengths. The outer control loop adjusts the pose of the feed platform, using inverse-dynamics control and PID control. The model derived is coupled to the multiloop controller, and simulations are run to evaluate the performance level of the control strategy.

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The record

Venue
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Topic
Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
Field
Engineering
Canadian institutions
Bombardier (Canada)McGill University
Funders
not available
Keywords
PID controllerRadio telescopeTelescopeController (irrigation)Attitude controlComputer scienceControl systemControl theory (sociology)Control engineeringEngineeringControl (management)Artificial intelligencePhysicsElectrical engineeringTemperature controlBiology
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes