The invention discloses an integrated docking and adding device. The integrated docking and adding device comprises a driving part and a driven part, and a layout form of a center and a periphery in a circle is adopted; a center rod is flexible, and after soft docking is realized, three groups of rigid rods uniformly distributed at the periphery are in rigid connection; when the initial docking of the flexible center rod is completed, and declination of two spacecrafts in the pitching/yaw direction is corrected, declination of the spacecrafts at lateral (radial) positions is corrected; when the initial docking of three side rods is completed, the rotating declination of the two spacecrafts is corrected, and the rigidities of the two connected spacecrafts are provided; the center rod has functions of limitation and control in extending movements and retracting movements, and after the center rod extends in place, a feedback signal is provided by a Hall proximity switch; the center rod and peripheral rods are unlocked by electromagnets. According to the integrated docking and adding device, the Hall proximity switch is arranged at the top end of the flexible rod, so that an erroneous judgment of locking is prevented, and a driven end is guaranteed to be passive.
Integrated docking and adding device and docking method
2015-11-25
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
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