Low-cost Rapid Development and Verification Environment for Micro-satellites

• Project/Area Number: 24760658
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Aerospace engineering
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KUWAHARA Toshinori 東北大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (30601033)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: 超小型人工衛星 / 姿勢制御 / 地上評価環境 / 信頼性向上 / 短期低コスト開発 / シミュレーション / 運用支援 / 短期開発 / 姿勢制御系 / 理学観測 / 国際情報交換 / ドイツ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recently, not only research and development of micro-satellite technologies, but also their actual utilization is becoming very active in the world. This research has established an integrated and comprehensive development and verification environment of micro-satellites in order to improve their reliability in the orbit, as well as to enable rapid and low-cost development. This environment is capable of full software simulation, dynamic closed-loop simulation, and real operation based on the same platform. This environment can be also configured and extended very flexibly according to the project's demands. The functionality of this environment has been evaluated as it was applied to Tohoku University's real-life micro-satellite project.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] TRITEL-JMS: A Three-Dimensional Silicon Detector Telescope Dedicated for Operation on Board Microsatellite RISESAT (2014)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Attila Hirn, Istvan Apathy, Laszlo Bodnar, Antal Csoke, Sandor Deme, Tamas Pazmandi, Peter Szanto, Gabor Troznai and Balazs Zabori
  • Journal Title: Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan Volume: 12
  • NAID: 130004685573
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 18. Establishment of the Ground Testing Environment for Verification and Integration of Micro-satellite (2014)
  • Author(s): Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazuya Yoshida, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura
  • Journal Title: Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan Volume: 12, ists29 Pages: 1-6
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Evaluation Tests of the Attitude Control System of the 50-kg Micro Satellite RISING-2 (2013)
  • Author(s): Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazuya Yoshida, Yukihiro Takahashi
  • Journal Title: TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN Volume: 未定
  • NAID: 130003373371
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] System Integration of a Star Sensor for the Small Earth Observation Satellite RISING-2 (2012)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Steve Battazzo, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazufumi Fukuda, Yuji Sakamoto, and Kazuya Yoshida
  • Journal Title: TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN Volume: 10
  • NAID: 130003373337
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Low-cost Simulation and Verification Environment for Micro-satellites (2015)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Yuji Sakamoto, Kazuya Yoshida
  • Organizer: 30th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: Kobe Convention Center, Kobe, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-04 – 2015-07-10
• [Presentation] Static Closed Loop Simulation of Attitude Control System of Microsatellite “RISESAT” (2015)
  • Author(s): Kazufumi Fukuda, Toshinori Kuwahara, Yuji Sakamoto, Kazuya Yoshida
  • Organizer: 30th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: Kobe Convention Center, Kobe, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-04 – 2015-07-10
• [Presentation] 14. Model-based Environment for Verification and Integration of Micro-satellites (2013)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura, Yuji Sakamoto, Kazuya Yoshida
  • Organizer: 19th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace
  • Place of Presentation: Wuerzburg, Germany
• [Presentation] Attitude Control System of International Scientific Micro-Satellite RISESAT (2013)
  • Author(s): Toshinori KUWAHARA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Yoshihiro TOMIOKA, Masato FUKUYAMA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA
  • Organizer: 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: Nagoya, Japan
• [Presentation] Attitude Control System of International Scientific Micro-Satellite RISESAT (2013)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazufumi Fukuda, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Masato Fukuyama, Yuji Sskamoto, Kazuya Yoshida
  • Organizer: 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋
• [Presentation] Establishment of the Ground Testing Environment for Verification and Integration of Micro-satellite (2013)
  • Author(s): Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazuya Yoshida, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura
  • Organizer: 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋
• [Presentation] Dynamic Test Table with Spherical Air Bearing for Microsatellite (2013)
  • Author(s): Kazufumi Fukuda, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Nobuo Sugimura, Yuji Sakamoto, Kazuya Yoshida
  • Organizer: 29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋
• [Presentation] Laser Data Downlink System of Micro-satellite RISESAT (2013)
  • Author(s): Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazuya Yoshida, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazufumi Fukuda, Hiroo Kunimori, Morio Toyoshima, Tetsuharu Fuse, Toshihiro Kubooka, Junichi Kurihara, Yukihiro Takahashi
  • Organizer: 27th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites
  • Place of Presentation: Logan, Utah, USA
• [Presentation] ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT COST-EFFECTIVE AND RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO-SATELLITES (2012)
  • Author(s): Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazuya Yoshida, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazufumi Fukuda, Nobuo Sugimura, Masato Fukuyama, Yoshihiko Shibuya
  • Organizer: International Astronautical Congress 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Naples Italy