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Detumbling strategy and coordination control of kinematically redundant space robot after capturing a tumbling target

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This paper focuses on the motion planning to detumble and control of a space robot to capture a non-cooperative target satellite. The objective is to construct a detumbling strategy for the target and a coordination control scheme for the space robotic system in post-capture phase. First, the dynamics of the kinematically redundant space robot after grasping the target is presented, which lays the foundation for the coordination controller design. Subsequently, optimal detumbling strategy for the post-capture phase is proposed based on the quartic B\(\acute{\text{ e }}\)zier curves and adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm subject to the specific constraints. Both detumbling time and control torques were taken into account for the generation of the optimal detumbling strategy. Furthermore, a coordination control scheme is designed to track the designed reference path while regulating the attitude of the chaser to a desired value. The space robot successfully dumps the initial velocity of the tumbling satellite and controls the base attitude synchronously. Simulation results are presented for detumbling a target with rotational motion using a seven degree-of-freedom redundant space manipulator, which demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

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This research was supported by “the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61603304, 61690210)” and “Shenzhen Future Industry Special Fund (Grant No. JCYJ20160531174213774).”

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  1. Science and Technology on Aerospace Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Mingming Wang, Jianjun Luo & Jianping Yuan

  2. Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518057, China

    Mingming Wang, Jianjun Luo & Jianping Yuan

  3. Institute of Astronautics, Technical University of Munich, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Ulrich Walter

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Wang, M., Luo, J., Yuan, J. et al. Detumbling strategy and coordination control of kinematically redundant space robot after capturing a tumbling target. Nonlinear Dyn 92, 1023–1043 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-018-4106-4

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