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CubeSTEM MissionLab Twin · M2-C

Three-Axis Guided Engineering Laboratories

Compare a fixed baseline with one bounded intervention, inspect deterministic evidence and explain the engineering relationship. The validated M2-A truth kernel remains unchanged.

Mission question

Attitude Acquisition: Tune for Faster Pointing

25 minute lab

How do proportional gain, damping and torque limits change the time required to point a CubeSat?

Compare a deliberately weak baseline controller with a bounded tuned controller and explain the pointing-error trade-off.

1

Predict whether stronger bounded control will reduce the final pointing error.

2

Run the fixed baseline and inspect its error, body-rate and wheel-speed evidence.

3

Run the candidate intervention and compare settling time, control effort and saturation.

4

Explain why a faster response is not automatically a safer or more efficient response.

Baseline comparison

Truth pointing error across mission time

Awaiting deterministic evidence

baseline

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Final error

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Final rate

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Peak wheel

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Estimator mean

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candidate

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Final error

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Final rate

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Peak wheel

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Estimator mean

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