High-performance feedback controllers: SISO and MIMO, digital and analog, for electrical and mechanical plants

Design experience:

The following controllers are among those designed by B. Lurie at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

• Position controller for the retroreflector carriage and several antennas controllers of the Chemistry Spacecraft. All these controllers are high-order and nonlinear, they control plants with structural modes, and include a high-order linear part with a Bode step.
• A nonlinear digital controller for Mars Pathfinder high-gain antenna pointing to Earth.
• Switched-capacitor controller for STRV spacecraft cryogenic cooler vibration rejection.
• Vibration damping in the model of space stellar interferometer.
• Microgravity accelerometer analog feedback loop (nonlinear, fast, with Angstrom accuracy).
• Cassini: Narrow View Camera thermal control, Mapping Spectrometer X-Y attitude controller, Computer clock PLL for the radar (frequency and duty cycle control).
• High-voltage power source for Deep Space Network klystron radar.
• A feedback-feedforward digital attitude controller for DS-1 spacecraft solar panels.
• Stellar Interferometer optical delay line control (main-vernier, with nm accuracy).
• Transmitter/receiver pointing system for space optical telecommunications.

DS-1, Chemistry, and Cassini spacecraft and the Mars Pathfinder Lander

Design experience:

• Frequency division multiplex and time-division multiplex telecommunication systems
• Wide-band telecommunication and CATV feedback amplifiers
• F/O receivers and transmitters
• Optical feedback about F/O laser transmitters
• Microwave and RF VCO, PLL, amplifiers, matching circuits, couplers, mixers, student RF laboratory
• Test-equipment (signal generators, bridges, precision amplifiers, 1.3 GHz sweep generator/network analyzer)
• High-power PWM amplifiers
• Active filters, PLL, telemetry electronics, motor drivers, analog electronics for space missions