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Volume 10, 2018
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control – Volume 10
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| Page(s) | 239 - 264 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201810239 | |
| Published online | 08 June 2018 | |
Manipulator trajectories during orbital servicing mission: numerical simulations and experiments on microgravity simulator
Space Research Centre (CBK PAN) 18a Bartycka Str., Warsaw 00-716, Poland
It is considered to use a manipulator-equipped satellite for performing On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) or Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions. In this paper, several possible approaches are reviewed for end-effector (EE) trajectory planning in the Cartesian space, such as application of the Bézier curves for singularity avoidance and method for trajectory optimization. The results of numerical simulations for a satellite equipped with a 7 degree-of-freedom (DoF) manipulator and results of experiments performed on a planar air-bearing microgravity simulator for a simplified two-dimensional (2D) case with a 2-DoF manipulator are presented. Differences between the free-floating case and the case where Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) keep constant position and orientation of the satellite are also shown.
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