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Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

This document describes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) project for a Cubesat spacecraft called Picasso being developed by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA). The objectives are to design a low-cost, high-accuracy IMU suitable for a Cubesat using off-the-shelf game sensors and sensor fusion. The tasks involve interacting with MDA to define requirements, designing potential IMU configurations, selecting a design, developing sensor fusion algorithms, building and testing a ground-based prototype, and identifying challenges for the space environment.

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Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

This document describes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) project for a Cubesat spacecraft called Picasso being developed by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA). The objectives are to design a low-cost, high-accuracy IMU suitable for a Cubesat using off-the-shelf game sensors and sensor fusion. The tasks involve interacting with MDA to define requirements, designing potential IMU configurations, selecting a design, developing sensor fusion algorithms, building and testing a ground-based prototype, and identifying challenges for the space environment.

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Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

Status: Available

Group Members: TBD

Sponsor(s): MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA)

Supervisor(s): Farid Golnaraghi, PhD, PEng, Professor, Mechatronic Systems


Engineering

Project Description

INTRODUCTION:
Picasso is a Cubesat class spacecraft being developed by MDA. Cubesats are a new class of
spacecraft that are very popular due to their low cost, and short development time. The first
Cubesats were cubes of 10 cm to a side, weighing up to 1.3 kg, known as a 1U. Picasso, which
is a 3U cubesat, is 30 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm.

Current Cubesats typically use measurements of the Sun and the Earth’s magnetic field in order
to determine where they are pointing. Larger spacecraft typically also include gyros to directly
measure the rate of rotation of the spacecraft. Existing rate gyros with the accuracy needed for
Picasso are expensive, bulky and generally not suitable for a Cubesat. As part of the Picasso
project, MDA is interested in the potential of developing a low cost, high accuracy IMU using off
the shelf game sensors. While these sensors have a low accuracy, by combining the outputs of
many of these sensors, it is believed that sufficient accuracy can be achieved.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Design an Inertial Measurement Unit suitable for a Cubesat application.
2. Build and test a prototype to demonstrate the design.

TASKS:
 Interact with the MDA Picasso team to derive the performance and interface
requirements for a Cubesat implementation, such as mass, power, rate resolution, noise
and drift.
 Take the requirements and come up with several potential IMU designs looking at
different quantities and orientations of game sensors.
 Prepare a set of criteria for evaluating the potential designs and use the criteria to select
one design.
 Develop the algorithms and select the hardware to perform the sensor fusion of the
selected design.
 Build a ground based prototype to demonstrate the design and identify issues and
limitations.
 Develop a test setup and test the prototype design to determine if it can measure a
known rate accurately (instantaneous rates as well as the rate over a longer period of
time).
 Identify the key design challenges in adapting the ground based solution for the space
environment.

DELIVERABLES:
1. IMU requirements specification.
2. Preliminary Design Review package containing conceptual design alternatives.
3. Critical Design Review package containing final design and interface details.
4. Prototype & breadboards as needed to demonstrate a ground based solution.
5. Test report describing the tests performed and showing how the design compares to the
requirements.
6. Discussion of changes required for space environment adaptation.
7. Open issues and recommendations for future work.

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