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The study of spin control of flexible electric sail using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation

  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • CAS - Beijing Institute of Control Engineering

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Abstract

The electric sail(E-sail) is an advanced propellantless propulsion system that uses the virtual sail produced by a group of long centrifugally spanned and electrically charged tethers to extract the solar wind momentum to spacecraft thrust. In this paper, the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) is applied to obtain a dynamic model of the tether using cable element based on the constitutive model of flexible tether considering the axial and bending deformation. The research applied the voltage modulation of the tether to obtain the attitude control torque for the sail. This study presented a method which used equivalent coning angle and phase angle to control the attitude of the sail concerning the deformation of the tether. The results shows E-sail which is consist of long flexible tethers could be well controlled by using the equivalent parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2017 and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages785-790
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538631355
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2017 and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2017 - Ningbo, China
Duration: 19 Nov 201721 Nov 2017

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2017 and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2017 - Proceedings
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2017 and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNingbo
Period19/11/1721/11/17

Keywords

  • absolute nodal coordinate formulation
  • coning angle
  • electric sail
  • flexible tethers
  • voltage modulation

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