Riccardo Colia
Preliminary design of a Floating Spacecraft Simulator for a Hardware-In-the-Loop testbed with a matching plane to simulate reduced gravity conditions.
Rel. Paolo Maggiore, Giuseppe Governale, Armando Vittorio Atzori. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2025
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Abstract
Simulating maneuvers in microgravity is challenging due to the unique conditions given by the space environment, which are difficult to replicate on Earth. These simulations are vital for developing operational protocols and proximity maneuver algorithms, helping to identify challenges, such as the precise control of the spacecraft during the maneuvers and to optimize algorithms, in terms of reducing time and power, to adjust the maneuver before the integration on the real spacecraft. As space missions become more complex, improving the fidelity and reliability of these simulations is crucial to ensuring mission success. The objective of this thesis is to delve into the most commonly used technologies that can replicate some conditions of a microgravity environment, that are the parabolic flights, the drop towers and the Floating Spacecraft Simulators(FSS) and then to analyze more deeply the FSS coupled with a granite matching plane.
First, the thesis will focus on the design process of the FSS using Systems Engineering (SE) principles and elements identifying system requirements through SE tools such as the functional tree, the N2 matrix and the functions/products matrix
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