Studying Technology of Collaborative Virtual Prototyping of Louver under ADAMS Platform
As a kind of active thermal-control technology, emissivity of the radiation surface greatly can be changed effectively by electric thermal-control louver, the heat exchange of the internal and external of the satellite can be adjusted, then heat-transfer characteristics of the controlled object could be adjusted timely, it reacts to the external change flexibly and precision of the thermoregulation is high. Model of louver was built r by ADAMS, then model of virtual prototyping was built during the system design stage and simulation of electromechanical joint was carried out by making use of both ADAMS and Matlab. Machinery characteristic property of system was derived from ADAMS, and joint simulation was realized by Simulink module of Matlab. Results indicates that machinery component of the louver can satisfy the technology index request completely, and has some characteristics such as simple structure, light weight, low power dissipation and high reliability.