Celestial mechanics

, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 337–359 | Cite as

Equations of motion for interconnected rigid and elastic bodies: A derivation independent of angular momentum

  • William W. Hooker
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Abstract

Equations of motion are derived for systems of rotationally interconnected bodies in which the terminal bodies may be flexible and the remaining bodies are rigid. The bodies may have an arbitrary ‘topological tree’ arrangement; that is, there are no closed loops of bodies. This derivation extends earlier results for systems of interconnected rigid bodies only, and is much simpler than several other recent works on terminal flexible bodies. The model for a flexible body assumes that the elastic deformation is representable as a time-varying linear combination of given mode shapes.

The paper also derives the appropriate form for gravitational terms, so that the equations can be used for flexible satellites. Also included are expressions for kinetic energy and angular momentum so that in case these are theoretically constant, they can be used to monitor the accuracy of the numerical integration. The paper concludes with a section showing how interbody constraint forces and torques (which do not appear in the equations of motion) can be recovered from quantities available in this formulation, and also how to treat state variables which are prescribed functions of time.

A digital computer program based on the equations derived here has been used to simulate a spinning Skylab (with flexible booms) and also the interplanetary Viking (with flexible solar panels and thrust vector control).

Keywords

Torque Angular Momentum Mode Shape Closed Loop Topological Tree 
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© D. Reidel Publishing Company 1975

Authors and Affiliations

  • William W. Hooker
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  1. 1.Lockheed Palo Alto Research LaboratoryPalo AltoUSA

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