Soft docking with damping of two spacecraft using a tether

The paper focuses on the dynamics of a rendezvous of a chaser and a large space debris connected by a viscoelastic tether. It is assumed that constant thrust acts on the chaser and a control is realized by changing the length of the tether. The goal is to find the control law that provides a soft do...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2018-09, Vol.1096 (1), p.12074
Main Authors: Aslanov, V S, Pikalov, R S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Control theory
Damping
Space debris
Spacecraft docking
Tethers
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Summary:The paper focuses on the dynamics of a rendezvous of a chaser and a large space debris connected by a viscoelastic tether. It is assumed that constant thrust acts on the chaser and a control is realized by changing the length of the tether. The goal is to find the control law that provides a soft docking of two bodies on an orbit. Also, we considered a three-body system with an additional damping device. The results are expected to be applied for controlling a rendezvous of two bodies using a tether.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1096/1/012074