System identification of large flexible appendage on satellite for autonomous control

Abstract

Vibration of Large flexible appendage seriously reduces the stability and accuracy of satellite attitude control, which can be solved by adjusting controller via on-orbit system identification method. This paper focuses on large flexible close mode satellite antenna, and Observer/Kalman filter identification (OKID) method is put into practice to solve the problem of system identification. Mode parameters and displacement responses under impulse and white noise excitations are extracted by finite element method (FEM), and then the concept of singular entropy is introduced to reduce observation noise and determine system order. Markov parameters are computed from displacement response and mode order, which is adopted in minimal realization of state space based on eigensystem realization algorithm (ERA). Comparing with the results of FEM in numerical simulation, OKID method is much more accurate and efficient for large flexible close mode satellite antenna on-orbit system identification.