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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a three-body tethered satellite system with deployment/retrieval

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This paper analyzes the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a three-body tethered satellite system undergoing deployment and retrieval, considering a variable orbital radius for the instantaneous mass center of the three satellites. A deploying or retrieving satellite system is modeled as a two-piece dumbbell model with six degrees of freedom, which consists of three point masses and two straight massless tethers. The nonlinear equations of motion for this model are derived by applying Lagrange’s equations. Using these nonlinear equations, the dynamic behavior of a satellite system is analyzed for several initial satellite attitudes. For the case of a three-body tethered satellite system undergoing deployment or retrieval, the dynamic response and attitude dynamics of the system are studied. This study shows that the proposed equations of motion generate results that are significantly different from those of a previous study when the system parameters and conditions are chosen so that the orbital radius of the mass center changes considerably with time. It is also observed that the attitude of a tethered satellite system stabilizes as the tethers are deployed and destabilizes as the tethers are retrieved.

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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST) (No. 2011-0017408).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, 425-791, Republic of Korea

    Wonyoung Jung & Jintai Chung

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Andre P. Mazzoleni

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Jung, W., Mazzoleni, A.P. & Chung, J. Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a three-body tethered satellite system with deployment/retrieval. Nonlinear Dyn 82, 1127–1144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-015-2221-z

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