Abstract:IntroductionDynamics and control of tethered satellites during deployment and retrieval phases have been studied by numerous authors. Following the suggestion of the tension control law by Hupp, many nonlinear feedback tension control laws based on Liapunov functions have been proposed. Determination of the tension control law through this route is possible only by trial and error because Liapunov functions are nonunique. In this paper an alternate method, a linear state variable feedback control law is propos… Show more
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