Ground-based implementation and verification of control laws for tethered satellites

Propellant-Free Control of Tethered Formation Flight, Part 1: Linear Control and Experimentation

“…Descriptions of these missions are found in the tether handbook [17]. The review paper [9] also introduces some groundbased experimental results of the out-of-plane libration control scheme with the equivalent tension control law with tether length and length rate as feedback [18], and active control of the in-plane pendulum oscillations and tether bobbling of the TSS by boom rotation [19].…”