Download or read book The Microgravity Isolation Mount written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibration acceleration levels on large space platforms exceed the requirements of many space experiments. The Microgravity Vibration Isolation Mount (MIM) was built by the Canadian Space Agency to attenuate these disturbances to acceptable levels, and has been operational on the Russian Space Station Mir since May 1996. It has demonstrated good isolation performance and has supported several materials science experiments. The MIM uses Lorentz (voice-coil) magnetic actuators to levitate and isolate payloads at the individual experiment/sub-experiment (versus rack) level. Payload acceleration, relative position, and relative orientation (Euler-parameter) measurements are fed to a state-space controller. The controller, in turn, determines the actuator currents needed for effective experiment isolation. This paper presents the development of an algebraic, state-space model of the MIM, in a form suitable for optimal controller design. The equations are first derived using Newton's Second Law directly; then a second derivation (i.e., validation) of the same equations is provided, using Kane's approach.Hampton, R. David and Tryggvason, Bjarni V. and DeCarufel, Jean and Townsend, Miles A. and Wagar, William O.Glenn Research CenterVIBRATION ISOLATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIBRATION DAMPING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; CONTROLLERS; STRUCTURAL VIBRATION; SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS; SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS; MICROGRAVITY; SPACE STATIONS; ACTUATORS; SUSPENSION SYSTEMS (VEHICLES); FEEDBACK CONTROL; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT