Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 10, No 1: February 2021

Single event latch-up detection for nano-satellite external solar radiation mitigation system

Norsuzila Yaa’cob (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Muhammad Fauzan Ayob (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Noraisyah Tajudin (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Murizah Kassim (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Azita Laily Yusof (Universiti Teknologi MARA)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Feb 2021

Abstract

This paper presents the single event latch-up (SEL) detection for nano-satellite external solar radiation mitigation system. In this study, the SEL detection analysis was conducted using circuit test and simulation. An electrical power subsystem (EPS) is a part of all CubeSat bus subsystems and it comprises solar arrays, rechargeable batteries, and a power control and distribution unit (PCDU). In order to extract the maximum power generated by the solar arrays, a peak power tracking topology is required. This may lead to the SEL with the presence of high voltage produced by solar. To overcome the SEL problems, the circuit test and simulation must be done so that the flow of SEL will be easily detected and mitigate. The method that been used are by using microcontroller, the SEL will be created in the certain time. The programable integrated circuit (PIC) are used to mitigate SEL effect. It indicates that, the SEL occur very fast in certain time. When the simulation is conducted by using SPENVIS, the result shows, only single event upset (SEU) was affected on UiTMSAT-1.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...