The current year, 2021, started with the landing of the Perseverance mission and the flight of the first drone on Mars, marking an important event in the history of space exploration. The exploration of new environments would be easier and characterised by the absence of various obstacles if implementing a larger use of drones. This thesis project represents a first attempt to design a space UAV based on thrusters, in order to permit its use also in vacuum: the purpose is to demon- strate the possibility to use and control this new space technology after selecting the adequate components. Lists of environments and thrusters are mentioned to give a general idea of the possibilities; afterwards, a trade-off between all these choices is done, picking HPGP thrusters and Interamnia 704 as exploration site. The design included offers a great glimpse about all the necessary subsystems and focuses on propulsion and GNC subsystem. The second part of the document aims the attention on the dynamics of the pro- posed platform, developing a mathematical model and the state space form. These information are used for the guidance and control algorithms: Explicit Guidance and Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion control. The results found are then shown and verified: demonstrating the feasibility of the drone and its autonomous control for exploration and mapping purposes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-87214 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Giacomini, Enrico |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Rymdteknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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