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Deployment dynamics of a simplified spinning IKAROS solar sail via absolute coordinate based method

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The spinning solar sail of large scale has been well developed in recent years. Such a solar sail can be considered as a rigid-flexible multibody system mainly composed of a spinning central rigid hub, a number of flexible thin tethers, sail membranes, and tip masses. A simplified interplanetary kite-craft accelerated by radiation of the Sun (IKAROS) model is established in this study by using the absolute-coordinate-based (ACB) method that combines the natural coordinate formulation (NCF) describing the central rigid hub and the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) describing flexible parts. The initial configuration of the system in the second-stage deployment is determined through both dynamic and static analyses. The huge set of stiff equations of system dynamics is solved by using the generalized-alpha method, and thus the deployment dynamics of the system can be well understood.

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  1. State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016, Nanjing, China

    Jiang Zhao & Hai-Yan Hu

  2. School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China

    Qiang Tian & Hai-Yan Hu

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The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11221202 and 51075032) and Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund from Beijing Institute of Technology.

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Zhao, J., Tian, Q. & Hu, HY. Deployment dynamics of a simplified spinning IKAROS solar sail via absolute coordinate based method. Acta Mech Sin 29, 132–142 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-013-0002-9

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