Recently, many countries are performing researchs about weapon systems or communication systems using laser. Because laser weapons are relatively easy to use and can exert powerful energy with high efficiency versus cost. Also laser communication systems has many advantages compared to RF communication systems, such as big data transmission through giga-bit communication, high security and so on. In these systems, one of highly important key components is Fast Steering Mirror(FSM) to control the laser beam precisely and accurately. Therefore, in this paper, we perform static and dynamic analysis to predict performances of Fast Steering Mirror using voice coil actuators. Also we manufacture prototype of FSM on the basis of static and dynamic analysis results, and perform the performance test about four items. As a result, we lay a foundation for research about FSM and laser systems, and expact to contribute improvement of performances of systems using laser.

This research introduced a command-filtered backstepping control of mirror system to maintain laser communication between satellite and ground station. This requires a 2 degree of freedom gimbal mirror system using DC motors for target acquisition, pointing, and tracking (APT) system. This APT system is used for laser communication between satellite and ground stations. To track these desired angles, we have to control DC motors using introduced command-filtered backstepping controller (CFBSC) with disturbance. Command filtered backstepping controller has second order filter instead differentiation for simple and fast calculation. Introduced command-filtered backstepping control gives a smooth control signal for intermediate states. Simulation results verify that CFBSC outperforms SMC in terms of tracking error and disturbance rejection.