1 December 2020 Design and analysis of a bi-axial centralized butterfly flexure hinge for fast steering mirrors
Lei Zhao, Hu Wang, Wenbo Duan, Pu Wang, Qingqing Wu, Xinming Wang
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Abstract

A bi-axial centralized butterfly flexure hinge for a fast steering mirror (FSM) was presented to adapt highly stabile accuracy of beam-pointing control performance in space laser communication. According to the requirements of two-dimensional reciprocating movements and high bandwidth provided for the FSM, the solid model of the bi-axial centralized butterfly flexure hinge was designed. By applying Castigliano’s displacement theorem, the numerical model was simplified and deduced. Furthermore, to quantify the numerical model, natural frequencies of the finite-element analysis (FEA) and experiments were carried out the results of which were compared with the analytic solutions. The experimental results show that the in-plane natural frequencies are 66.37 and 112.2 Hz, respectively. The comparison shows that the errors between numerical analytic and experimentation are 3.0% and 1.4%, respectively, and errors between FEA and experimentation are 1.7% and 2.4%, respectively. It is proven that the bi-axial centralized butterfly flexure hinge we built is an appropriate structure as a two-axis guide mechanism in two-dimensions for an FSM system with a large bandwidth of 225 Hz.

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Lei Zhao, Hu Wang, Wenbo Duan, Pu Wang, Qingqing Wu, and Xinming Wang "Design and analysis of a bi-axial centralized butterfly flexure hinge for fast steering mirrors," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 6(4), 048003 (1 December 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.048003
Received: 26 March 2020; Accepted: 19 November 2020; Published: 1 December 2020
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Finite element methods

Error analysis

Actuators

Servomechanisms

Systems modeling

Beam controllers

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