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Development of the landing dynamic and performance of an asteroid landing mechanism

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The asteroid landing mechanism is used to landing on the asteroid. Its landing dynamic and landing performance studies have a grateful guidance to the design of itself. The mechanical characteristics and landing strategy of the small landing mechanism with three legs were analyzed, and then a Lagrange method was introduced to build its two-dimensional landing dynamic model. This model described the dynamic characteristics of the landing mechanism in the landing and turning stages. The analyzing results of this model were validated by simulation. Their results were close and had accordant changing trends. On the most permitted inclined landing slope with 30 degree, the landing performance of the landing mechanism with different landing velocities and yaw angels were simulated in Adams software and analyzed statistically. The results show that the landing mechanism has a reasonable landing performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1676-1681
Number of pages6
JournalBeijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Volume39
Issue number12
StatePublished - Dec 2013

Keywords

  • Asteroid landing mechanism
  • Lagrange equation
  • Landing dynamic
  • Overloading acceleration
  • Stability

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