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Space exploration and communication satellites and space structures need déployable precision mirrors, reflectors, and antennas. Conventional deployable space structures require motors and kinematic mechanisms to assist the deployment process. These mechanisms have the potential to jam or tangle and thus jeopardize the entire space mission. Recent development of smart structures and structronic systems opens many new design options in precision structures and systems. This paper reports a study of precision actuation and control for micro-shell laminated space structures made of smart materials. New design concepts of déployable micro-shell laminated structures are discussed and conceptual models fabricated. Analysis of precision parabolic struts is carried out and actuation authorities of proposed configurations are evaluated.
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Lih, SS., Hickey, G., Wang, D.W., Tzou, H.S. (2001). Precision Actuation of Micro-Space Structures. In: Gabbert, U., Tzou, H.S. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0724-5_27
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