Experimental validation of optimization-based integratedcontrols-structures design methodology for flexible spacestructures

摘要

This paper describes the first experimental verification of thenbenefits of control-structure integrated design methodology, as part ofnthe efforts of the controls-structures-interaction (CSI) program at NASAnLangley in developing and experimentally verifying CSI designnmethodologies. In this design methodology, the structural and controlndesigns are performed in a unified environment which would allow ancomplete iteration on all critical (control and structural) designnvariables in a single integrated computational framework. The phase-0nCSI Evolutionary Model, a laboratory structure at NASA Langley, was usednas the candidate flexible structure for this experimental validation