IREC 2023 - Reaction Wheel

Owned by Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)
Last updated: Oct 01, 2022
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Project overview

The reaction wheel allows us to control the rocket's roll rate and heading. 

Hard benefits:

  • Simulations more closely reflect the rocket's behavior
  • Lower-risk recovery due to less spin
  • Pointing a scenic camera in a specific (barring that, fixed) direction

Soft benefits:

  • First experience with tuning a control system
  • First experience with state estimation
  • Arbitrarily complicated technical report analysis

Components:

  • Wheel & mount
  • Motor & mount
  • Batteries
  • Motor controller
  • STM32F411 Discovery kit (replaceable by flight computer connection)
  • LIS3MDL magnetometer (replaceable by flight computer connection)

Milestones:

  • CDR: L1 scale module designed, desk demo tuning in progress
  • FDR: IREC scale module designed, desk demo tuning in progress

Meeting notes and supporting pages