Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
An attitude control strategy for maneuvers of an interconnection of planar bodies in space is developed. It is assumed that there are no exogeneous torques and that torques generated by joint motors are used as means of control so that the total angular momentum of the multibody system is a constant, assumed to be zero. The control strategy utilizes the nonintegrability of the expression for the angular momentum. Large angle maneuvers can be designed to achieve an arbitrary reorientation of the multibody system with respect to an inertial frame. The theoretical background for carrying out the required maneuvers is summarized.
Keywords:
SPACECRAFT DESIGN, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE
Type:
Michigan Univ., Efficient Reorientation Maneuvers for Spacecraft with Multiple Articulated Payloads; 15 p
Format:
application/pdf