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A new method for calculating space vehicle (SV) attitude controls ensuring their effective implementation by a system of collinear pairs of single-gimbal forced unrestrained gyros (gyrodynes) has been proposed. The novelty of the method consists in a virtual kinematic configuration of the gyro system, i.e., the precession of gyro units in the collinear pairs of gyrodynes is coupled in a nonmechanical manner. In addition, the angular momentum of the system as a state variable for describing the dynamics of the SV permanent rotation was used for the first time at the stage of computing controls performed nonstop by gyrodynes. In the general formulation, when the desired final state of the SV is arbitrary, the SV attitude control problem can be reduced to a sequence of permanent rotations. The performance of the method is demonstrated as applied to the calculation of program gyrodyne controls with a permanent reduction in the SV angular velocity around its center of mass with a nonzero SV angular momentum after its discharge.
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Published in Russian in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 476, No. 1, pp. 22–25.
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Druzhinin, E.I. Computation of program controls performed nonstop by gyrodynes. Dokl. Math. 96, 528–530 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064562417050027
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