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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

Final error

Final rate

Peak wheel

Estimator mean

candidate

Final error

Final rate

Peak wheel

Estimator mean