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A. Steindl:
"Optimal control of the deployment and retrieval of a tethered satellite under small disturbances";
Talk: Euromech Colloquium 541 "New Advances in the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Composites for Smart Engineering Design", Senigallia; 2013-06-03 - 2013-06-06; in: "New Advances in the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Composites for Smart Engineering Design", S. Lenci, J. Warminski (ed.); (2013), 1 pages.

We investigate the time-optimal deployment and retrieval of a tethered satellite. In previous
investigations we assumed, that the space station moves on a circular orbit and that
the motion of the sub-satellite is restricted to the orbital plane. In this talk we consider the
stabilization of the planar configuration and we also consider the case, that the orbit of the
main station moves on an elliptic orbit with small eccentricity. For both cases we assume
for simplicity, that the motion of the sub-satellite does not influence the orbit of the main
station and that the mass of the tether can be completely neglected. The control of the
motion is performed by pulling at one end of the tether.
We first study the simultaneous controllability of the in-

Optimal Control, Invariant manifolds, Deployment, out-of-plane perturbations

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_223537.pdf