Abstract This paper studies chaotic control of a tethered satellite system (TSS) driven only by a momentum-exchange device during its attitude adjustment. In dealing with such the underactuated system, an extended time-delay autosynchronization (ETDAS) is employed to stabilize the chaotic motion to a periodic motion. To obtain the control domains of the ETDAS method, a stability analysis of the controlled tethered satellite system in elliptical orbit is implemented. According to the principle of dynamic similarity, then, ground-based experiment setups are proposed and designed to emulate the in-plane motions of the TSS. Representative experiments are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ETDAS scheme in controlling the chaotic motion of the underactuated TSS.
Highlights Dynamics of the on-orbit TSS is achieved equivalently on ground-based experiment. The under-actuated TSS can be stabilized by the ETDAS method. A method of controlling chaos of TSS to a periodic motion is developed.
Experimental verification of chaotic control of an underactuated tethered satellite system
Acta Astronautica ; 120 ; 287-294
2015-12-16
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Experimental verification of chaotic control of an underactuated tethered satellite system
Online Contents | 2016
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009
|Finite-time stability of an underactuated tethered satellite system
Elsevier | 2019
|