Sentence examples for using a reaction wheel from inspiring English sources

An attitude controller consisting of relative control and absolute control is designed using a reaction wheel assembly for regulator and tracking problems.

In the autonomous method, a repetitive torque disturbance (by using a reaction wheel) is exerted to the stabilized satellite, the cold-gas thrusters are then applied in an on-board control system to stabilize the satellite attitude.

"All the pendulum actuation is achieved using a reaction wheel (commonly used to adjust the orientation of satellites)." "The reaction wheel is driven by an Applied Motion StepSERVO that is controlled with an Arduino Due," he adds.

The focus of this paper is to develop a control scheme for overcoming the nutational motion of an asymmetric spin satellite regardless of its spin-to-transverse inertia ratio using a single reaction wheel mounted along the desired spin axis.

Mission controllers then instructed Odyssey to use a spare reaction wheel onboard as they assessed the situation.

A developed control law and a reaction wheel were used to control the deployment.

But the spacecraft recently experienced a reaction wheel failure.

When in the air, the robot behaves like a reaction wheel pendulum with a pivot at its center of mass.

Alsat-1 is a 3-axis stabilised microsatellite, using a pitch momentum wheel and yaw reaction wheel, with dual redundant 3-axis magnetorquers.

Therefore, control methods designed for a satellite using two reaction wheels cannot be applied to three-axis attitude maneuver problems for a satellite using 2SGCMGs.

The scan was carried out using the reaction wheels of the spacecraft, while the attitude of the spacecraft was detected with the star tracker.