Control of a rotating variable-length tethered system

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 849-858

  Kim, Mischa ^a,b   Hal, Christopher D ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aerospace and Ocean Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION CONTROL; ROTATION;

CONTROL IMPULSE; INFRARED TELESCOPES; TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEMS (TSS); VARIABLE-LENGTH TETHERED SYSTEMS;

TETHERLINES;

EID: 4944255183     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3226     Document Type: Article

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