Control of a flexible space robot tracking a moving target

This dissertation is concerned with a space robot consisting of a rigid platform, two articulated flexible arms and a rigid end-effector. The task is to ferry some payload and to dock smoothly with an orbiting target whose motion is either known or not known a priori. The dynamical equations for pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Yifeng
Other Authors: Engineering Mechanics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39725
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10102005-131607/