Effect and Control of Pendular Motion of Abandoned Satellite on Tether Drag System

Abstract:

As a kind of typical on-orbit capture and aberrance technology, space tether de-orbit system has broad application prospect in terms of cleaning space debris and abandoned satellites. In the paper, the attitude dynamics equations of the tether de-orbit system is established based on law of moment of momentum; Against the background of de-orbiting under a constant thrust in the tangential direction, the optimized PD control law with limited attitude feedback on jet control and momentum wheel control is designed for the mission satellite; The oscillation characteristics of the attitude of abandoned satellite are studied, and the effect of the oscillation on the tethered system and based satellite are analyzed; According to the demand for maintaining the position and suppressing the oscillation of the abandoned satellite, a kind of tension control method is put forward. Numerical simulation results indicate that the abandoned satellite oscillates at a specific angular frequency, and the large amplitude threatens the stabilization of tethered system; the designed tension control method effectively eliminate the oscillation of the abandoned satellite and ensure the flight safety of the tether de-orbit system, with economic energy consumption for the control of the based satellite.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 513-517)
• Pages: 3900-3906
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.513-517.3900
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Guo Wei Zhao*, Bin Tang, Liang Sun, Xing Min Zhang
• Keywords: Dynamic, Orbital Transfer, Pendular Characteristics, Tethered System

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