Experiment on Attitude Control

for
Solar Power Generation
Haoyang Yu, Yuji Nishitani, Saki Wada and Noritomo Yanaimoto
Imagine a satellite
It’s solar battery for us.
 The Structure
for
Generation
wrap up 5 solar panels on cansat
Light

If left is higher,
cansat will rotate left,
the same is on the right sight.

If center(red panel)
is the highest,
the wrapped up 5 solar panel
are opened to make
the electricity efficiency
electricity
amount high low
at the maximum amount
 mission plan

That structure is very difficult for us to complete.

This time, we focused on 3 parts to make Cansat.

• Make the Cansat rotate

• Take the electricity amount of solar
batteries
• Make the solar panels open
 Cansat System
NOT circuit GPS resistance

Solar Panel
CanSat Kit !5

power
nichrome wire
relay circuit
micro
power
gyro sensor relay circuit

Reaction Wheel
Photos
 the details
of
-solar panel
-reaction wheel
-program & communication
 (mA) 1"
30.0 10"
100"
22.5 1k"
10k"
100k"
15.0

7.5

0
0

0
(V)
62

25

87

50
0.

1.

1.

2.
Investigate-Property-Curve 2/20 15:30 to 16:00 (sunny)
of
1/21 13:30 to 14:00 (cloudy)
Our Solar-Battery
 -Tape Measure-
•Light
Tape Measure •Don’t snap
& •Bend flexible and return strongly
•Easy to cut
Solar Battery •Cheap
 Reaction Wheel

Hard Disk Drive

• High rotational speed

• Cheep and easy to get in

Akihabara

BUT
• Very special to control
 -Motor-
form CD Drive

-Weight-
Platter from Hard Disk

!3
Motor & Weight Platters weight - 30g
Cansat weight - 700g

It’s enough to rotate Cansat

 Mission Sequence

ejection
on Save data
wheel on
open panel

wheel off
off
 Movie

Ground Mission Plan

experiment Make the Cansat rotate

Take the electricity amount of solar batteries
movie Make the solar panels open
 Ground Experiment
2/10 12:00~13:00 (sunny)
(deg/s)
500
400
300
200
100
0
gyro
-100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 (sec)
2.5V

2.0V

1.5V

1.0V Panel 1 Panel 2

Panel 3 Panel 4
0.5V
Panel 5
0V
 Ground Experiment
2/10 12:00~13:00 (sunny)

corrected data
Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4 Panel 5
2.5V

2.0V

1.5V

1.0V

0.5V

0V
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
(sec)
 experiment
Experiment #... didn’t work
Because some cords were cut off
due to the impact during the drop.

reconnect the cords

Experiment $... it also didn’t work

Because we were putting empty battery by mistake.
Before the end

in preparation ...
Thank you