Relative motion of free and tethered satellites
- When?
- Thursday 2 December 2010, 11:30 to 12:30
- Where?
- 13/15 BA 01
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Kristian Kristiansen (Surrey, Maths & SSC)
Abstract: As formation flying missions are becoming a reality, relative motion modelling has received an enhanced interest through the past decade.
In this talk we will first show how one can obtain closed-form solutions of the relative motion of satellites on neighbouring Keplerian orbits while directly addressing important physical conserved quantities and the geometry underpinning the problem. Next, a geometrical setting to relative attitude is presented and within this setting we will show some results on applying an $L^2$-optimal control. The final part of the talk will present some results on the unification of models of tethered satellites. This will also include a result on the adiabatic invariance of a slow manifold with bifurcation.
