Actuation for Space Applications
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerospace Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 3942
Special Issue Editor
Interests: actuation for aerospace (servo-hydraulic, electro-hydrostatic, electromechanical); architecting; system level modelling and simulation; control; testing; virtual validation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Space conquest, deep space exploration, space tourism, communication, and earth observation generate an increasing need for high-performance actuators and actuation systems, e.g., for thrust vector and attitude control, robotic arms and robotized tools, docking, deployment, and pointing mechanisms. All these applications must simultaneously meet incredibly specific constraints related to weight, energy consumption, reliability and availability, service life, and harsh environment. Given the wide range of power requirements, from Newtons to ton tens and microns to meters, space actuators involve vastly different technologies, such as electromagnetics, hydraulics, piezoelectric and smart memory alloys.
Authors are invited to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting original research papers and review articles dealing with:
- New applications and technologies;
- Innovative design approaches for sizing and control;
- Reliability, heath monitoring, and reconfiguration;
- Advanced use of model-based/simulation-aided design;
- Real and virtual testing methods and tools.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Charles Maré
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innovative principles
- advancement of technological and manufacturing readiness levels (TRL/MRL)
- robustness and optimization
- digital twin
- virtual testing and integration
- availability
- reconfiguration
- prognostics and health monitoring (PHM)
- multi-axis actuation
- synchronisation, force equalization
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