Abstract
There has been an increasing attention toward the research of space manipulator systems for different applications like on-orbit servicing, debris removal, etc. from various institutions across the globe. This resulted in the trend of investigating simple methods to couple various manipulator and base/spacecraft pose control methodologies that already exist independently in the literature. One such scientific work in this direction proposed a control strategy for purely manipulator end-effector trajectory tracking control, while the base/spacecraft is station-kept. This article investigates the generalizability of the control strategy proposed by the scientific work for various space manipulation applications.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
space manipulator systems,
space manipulation,
simulations,
multibody dynamics and control,
on-orbit servicing,
debris removal,
aerospace systems,
collision avoidance,
complex systems,
control applications,
dynamics and control,
motion controls,
nonlinear control,
robotics,
spacecraft control
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