Optimal Deployment of a Tethered Satellite using Tension Control. Issue 1 (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steindl, Alois
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 48:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 53
• Page End: 54
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: Tension control -- Time optimal control -- Pontryagin's Maximum Principle -- Elliptic orbit; Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.05.173
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: We investigate the deployment of a tethered satellite from the space station, which moves along a Keplerian elliptic orbit with small eccentricity. The control of the satellite's motion is performed by applying a restricted tension force along the connecting tether. The goal of the control is to steer the satellite from a periodic state close to the local vertical position to a periodic motion farther away from the space station in shortest time.