Owosso, Michigan. 02 April 2024. SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, announces it has supplied a major Aerospace and Defense Security Company with a test system for performing automated testing of very low speed/high torque motors used in swing wing reusable spacecraft applications. The test system uses SAKOR’s AccuDyne™ AC motoring dynamometer configured to provide the required torques and speeds. SAKOR’s new DynoLAB™ GenV next generation data acquisition and control system automates the entire test stand, acting as a space craft emulator.
The four-quadrant AccuDyne dynamometer is capable of full bi-directional loading and motoring of the unit under test. It can also provide full rated torque over its entire operating range, including stall (zero rpm). Featuring continuous motoring and absorbing, regenerative braking, and extremely low but precisely controlled minimum speed (0.017 rpm), it provides up to 110,000 Newton-meters (Nm) torque over its entire operating range.
SAKOR’s next generation DynoLAB™ GenV test automation controller makes it even easier to implement complex test systems and subsystems, and delivers a new benchmark in modularity, performance, robustness, and expandability. The powerful new DynoLAB GenV graphical test sequence editor allows users to easily define arbitrarily complex automated test sequences. This allows the DynoLAB GenV system to automate anything from simple test benches, to entire test cells and autonomous complex subsystems.
“We are extremely happy to have been selected to work with this company again on their cutting edge technology, which is so critical to our nation’s next-generation space capabilities,” said Randal Beattie, president of SAKOR. “We are confident that the system will push the design envelope to ensure that atmospheric control systems can handle anything they may have thrown at them.”