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Kangwen Sun, Siyu Liu, Huafei Du, Haoquan Liang and Xiao Guo
The stratospheric airship is a type of aerostat that uses solar energy as its power source and can fly continuously for months or even years in near space. The rapid and accurate prediction of the output power of its solar array is the key to maintaining...
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Michal Cuadrat-Grzybowski and Eberhard Gill
Mitigation strategies to eliminate existing space debris, such as with Active Space Debris Removal (ASDR) missions, have become increasingly important. Among the considered ASDR approaches, one involves using a net as a capturing mechanism. A fundamental...
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Jiwei Tang, Weicheng Xie, Pingfang Zhou, Hui Yang, Tongxin Zhang and Quanbao Wang
Stratospheric airships have much potential in military and commercial applications. Design, analysis and optimization of stratospheric airships involves complex trade-off of different disciplines, and hence a multidisciplinary approach is essential. This...
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Jae-Hyeon Park, Sung-Woo Park, Jong-Pil Kim and Hyun-Ung Oh
A novel passive vibration-damping device is proposed and investigated for a large deployable solar array. One strategy for achieving high damping in a solar panel is using a yoke structure comprising a hyperelastic shape memory alloy and multiple viscous...
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Ji Liang, Hongguang Jia, Mao-Sheng Chen, Ling-Bo Kong, Huiying Hu and Lihong Guo
In this study, a dynamic model of a solar array drive system that includes a pair of flexible solar arrays with a central rigid shaft and a permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) was developed, and a disturbance compensation sliding mode control (DCSM...
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Tongben Wang, Zhifei Ma, Jingming Jiang and Qi Chen
The electric transmission failure induced by the electrostatic migration and deposition of the friction-pair-produced abrasive dusts in the Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA) is studied for the first time by integrating experiments and Finite Element Meth...
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Tabassum Kanwal, Saif Ur Rehman, Tariq Ali, Khalid Mahmood, Santos Gracia Villar, Luis Alonso Dzul Lopez and Imran Ashraf
Agriculture is a critical domain, where technology can have a significant impact on increasing yields, improving crop quality, and reducing environmental impact. The use of renewable energy sources such as solar power in agriculture has gained momentum i...
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Abdul Ghani Olabi, Rania M. Ghoniem, Abdul Hai Alami and Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem
DC power may be more efficient than AC power in certain applications, especially when it comes to local generation and storage. This is because AC power requires extra equipment to convert it to DC power, which can lead to energy losses. Using DC power, ...
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Yang Liu, Ziyuan Xu, Huafei Du and Mingyun Lv
Stratospheric airships with a solar array have demonstrated overwhelming superiority in many aspects, such as earth observation, meteorological survey, and communication relay. The solar array supplies sufficient power for the airship to be in flight for...
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Andrea Colagrossi and Michèle Lavagna
The capability to orient the solar arrays of a spacecraft toward the Sun is an ultimate asset for any attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS). This ability should be maintained in any operative circumstance, either nominal or off-nominal, to ...
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