TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing CanSat Mission Safety
T2 - 10th Brazilian Technology Symposium, BTSym 2024
AU - Villacorta, Lalo
AU - Chunga, Fabrizio
AU - Aquino, Giovanni
AU - Salvador, César D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This paper presents an autogyro system for the safe landing of a class of compact satellites in miniature called CanSat. The proposal ensures the safe landing with fragile payloads by protecting the essential electrical and mechanical systems. The proposed autogyro system, consisting of six blades, is designed to reduce the impact force at ground by means of generating a passive lift force during descent that decelerates the CanSat in free fall. In addition, a decoupling mechanism, activated via telemetry, allows for the separation of primary and secondary payloads during descent, facilitating the deployment of the autogyro system. The methodology of this paper encompasses the autogyro design, its construction, its integration with a CanSat, its validation through data colection in free fall, and the analysis of results. Free-fall experiments were conducted from drones and buildings in close to wind-free conditions. The results showed that the optimal deployment of the autogyro system reduced the descent speed and protected the payload. The maximum deceleration registered during free fall was 4.94 ms-2 in 0.37 s. Future research may explore improvements in blade design and testing in various environmental conditions by means of sensing additional degrees of freedom during the free-fall dynamics.
AB - This paper presents an autogyro system for the safe landing of a class of compact satellites in miniature called CanSat. The proposal ensures the safe landing with fragile payloads by protecting the essential electrical and mechanical systems. The proposed autogyro system, consisting of six blades, is designed to reduce the impact force at ground by means of generating a passive lift force during descent that decelerates the CanSat in free fall. In addition, a decoupling mechanism, activated via telemetry, allows for the separation of primary and secondary payloads during descent, facilitating the deployment of the autogyro system. The methodology of this paper encompasses the autogyro design, its construction, its integration with a CanSat, its validation through data colection in free fall, and the analysis of results. Free-fall experiments were conducted from drones and buildings in close to wind-free conditions. The results showed that the optimal deployment of the autogyro system reduced the descent speed and protected the payload. The maximum deceleration registered during free fall was 4.94 ms-2 in 0.37 s. Future research may explore improvements in blade design and testing in various environmental conditions by means of sensing additional degrees of freedom during the free-fall dynamics.
KW - Autogyro
KW - CanSat
KW - Decoupling
KW - Safe landing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105009960560
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-92651-8_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-92651-8_12
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:105009960560
SN - 9783031926501
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 107
EP - 115
BT - Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Technology Symposium, BTSym 2024 - Emerging Trends and Challenges in Technology
A2 - Iano, Yuzo
A2 - Saotome, Osamu
A2 - Arthur, Rangel
A2 - Quispe-Barra, Marco Antonio
A2 - Vizuete, Marcelo Zambrano
A2 - Patel, Kanubhai K.
A2 - Gomes de Oliveira, Gabriel
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 16 October 2024 through 18 October 2024
ER -