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Energy efficient intelligent structure for attitude control of satellite

Cilia Based MSAC and Drive Circuits [1]

James Allison and researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a technology that provides fine pointing and large slew attitude control for satellites and spacecraft with a power electronics driver circuit that improves the power efficiency of the system by at least one order of magnitude. The invention features a dedicated compliant actuator on a vehicle to produce the torques to achieve arbitrarily large rotations around all axis without the jitter limitation of other attitude control system.

Primary application: accurate and precise attitude control for satellites/spacecraft

Related Technology: 360 Degree Attitude Control of Satellites [2]

James T.
Allison

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[1] https://origin.otm.illinois.edu/technologies/cilia-based-msac-and-drive-circuits [2] https://otm.illinois.edu/technologies/multifunctional-structures-attitude-control