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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamic modeling andsimulation of a tether-net/gripper system during an impact, while it isbeing deployed or retrieved by a winch on a satellite orbiting aroundearth. We stick to Tether-Net system but the analysis is applicable toTether-Gripper systems too. We assume that the net is deployed from thesatellite in orbit and the motion is restricted to the orbital plane.This net captures a second satellite and tows it. The motion of atether-net system can be broken down into the following phases: (i)Phase 1: Net is shot out from the satellite with the tether completelyslack, (ii) Phase 2: Net comes to a location where the tether is tautwhile the drum on the orbiter is locked, (iii) Phase 3: Drum is unlockedand the net moves with the tether, (iv) Phase 4: Net captures a body.The continua (tether) is modeled using mode functions and coordinates.The theory of impulse and momentum can be used to model Phases 1, 2, and4 of motion of the tether-net system. The dynamics of the motion of thesystem in phase 3 is characterized by differential and algebraicequations (DAEs). Matlab ODE solvers were used to solve these DAEs.
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Mankala, K.K., Agrawal, S.K. Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Impact in Tether Net/Gripper systems. Multibody System Dynamics 11, 235–250 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MUBO.0000029393.25494.64
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MUBO.0000029393.25494.64