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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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Table 1.2: Effect of simulation results on mission <strong>with</strong> tuning.<br />

# Simulation Action On-Orbit Action Result<br />

Prediction <strong>Performance</strong><br />

1 meet req launch good none success<br />

2 meet req launch bad tune success<br />

3 <strong>with</strong>in bound launch good none success<br />

4 <strong>with</strong>in bound launch bad tune success<br />

eration of model uncertainty. <strong>Robust</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Tailoring</strong> (RPT) refers to robust<br />

structural optimization in which robustness to a specified uncertainty model is in-<br />

cluded in the design objective. <strong>Robust</strong> <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Tailoring</strong> for <strong>Tuning</strong> (RPTT) is<br />

an extension to RPT in which a design is optimized for performance, robustness and<br />

tunability. In this approach the tuning or adjustment on hardware is anticipated and<br />

explicitly planned for during the design optimization.<br />

1.2.3 Research Objectives<br />

The main objective of this thesis is to develop a design methodology that is appropri-<br />

ate for high-performance and high-risk systems such as space-based interferometers.<br />

Available robust design tools are applied to this problem and evaluated for effective-<br />

ness. An extension to robust design that includes a formal tuning methodology is<br />

developed. The specific research goals, and thesis chapters in which they are ad-<br />

dressed, are as follows:<br />

• Apply structural optimization and the robust design framework and tools to<br />

space-based interferometer design. Identify control and noise parameters rele-<br />

vant to the design of precision structures for optical space systems [<strong>Chapter</strong>s 2<br />

and 3].<br />

• Evaluate the performance of robust design techniques on high-performance and<br />

high-uncertainty systems [<strong>Chapter</strong> 3].<br />

• Formalize an efficient tuning methodology that can be applied to flight hard-<br />

ware either during component testing or on-orbit operation to bring the system<br />

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