LAUNCHING A SPACE ROBOT IN ORBIT AND APPROACHING TO GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE

Abstract

The problems of putting a space robot into a geostationary orbit using a combined scheme and its approach to an information geostationary satellite are considered. The robot motion control system uses a propulsion system with 8 jet engines at the pulse-width modulation of their thrust values and a gyroscopic moment cluster based on 4 gyrodines with digital control. Numerical results are presented that demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed discrete guidance and control algorithms.