S. Matunaga et J. Onoda, SYMMETRICAL MOTION CONTROL FOR ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE-BASED CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES, Journal of spacecraft and rockets, 34(1), 1997, pp. 118-124
The configuration of adaptive structures and the deformation docking u
sed for constructing large space structures is examined, The symmetric
adaptive structure, which has symmetric distribution of mass and iner
tia, is proposed for the deformation docking, In addition, a symmetric
motion control is presented, The concept, formulation, and advantages
of the symmetric motion control are described, It is shown that there
is a reduction of computer requirements, as well as the possibility o
f obtaining closed-form solutions of workspace, a distribution of sing
ularity points, and a measure of the deformation docking possibility,
Numerical and experimental simulations using a four-link structural mo
del are conducted to validate the concepts presented.